United States v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
996 F.2d 1049 · 1993
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably United States v. Williamson (1995), United States v. Massey (1995)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
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. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 641 (Livestock Fraud Protection Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 659
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Atkinson · Brewster v. Derwinski · Heflin v. United States · Garber 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“seriously affect the fairness, integrity, or public reputation of judicial proceedings”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To constitute plain error, the district court's error must have been both 'obvious and substantial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he concurrent sentence doctrine is discretionary rather than jurisdictional....”
1 later decision 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.