United States v. Brady’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 664 · 1993
Citation profile
72 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Thompson (2005), United States v. Hudspeth (1994)
72 federal appellate ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 21 U.S.C. § 849 (§ 409 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hill · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Yagow v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile defendant Brady sat at the Club Continental bar with his concealed shotgun, he could have decided that the one robbery he had committed was enough for the evening. Instead, he decided to rob again....”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“committed on occasions different from one another.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the case of a person who violates section 922(g) of this title [felon in possession] and has three previous convictions by any court ... for a violent felony or a serious drug offense, or both, committed on occasions different from one another, such person shall be ... imprisoned not less than fifteen years....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.