Brown v. People

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[W]hen parties properly raise an issue during the course of Superior Court proceedings, the Superior Court possesses an obligation to explain the reasons for its decision.” (citations omitted)
• “[Wjhen a criminal defendant fails to object to a Superior Court decision or order, this Court ordinarily only reviews for plain error, provided that the challenge has been forfeited rather than waived.”
• “The defendant bears the burden of establishing the existence of plain error.”
• “[W]hen parties properly raise an issue during the course of Superior Court proceedings, the Superior Court possesses an obligation to explain the reasons for its decision in order to enable effective appellate review by this Court.”
• “[I]t is . . . well established that, when parties properly raise an issue during the course of Superior Court proceedings, the Superior Court possesses an obligation to explain the reasons for its decision in order to enable effective appellate review by this Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Webster v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-03-05· cited 27×
• Garcia v. Garcia
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-20· cited 24×
• Galloway v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-12-05· cited 22×
• Jackson-Flavius v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-12-17· cited 21×
• Connor v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-02· cited 21×
• Francis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-07-31· cited 20×
• George v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-15· cited 14×
• Rieara v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-11-27· cited 13×
• Willie v. Amerada Hess Corp.
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-02-28· cited 13×
• Peters v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-01-22· cited 11×
• People v. Murrell
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-06-18· cited 10×
• People v. Armstrong
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-05-03· cited 8×
• Chciuk-Davis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-08-06· cited 6×
• Benjamin v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-06· cited 3×
• Brathwaite v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-07-20· cited 1×
• Miller v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2017-08-09· cited 1×
• Hughes v. People of the VI
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2026-06-01

Cites

70 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 4,572×
• Hutto v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 815×
• People v. McCoy
  California Supreme Court· 2001-06-25· cited 680×
• People v. Alexander
  Illinois Supreme Court· 2010-11-18· cited 614×
• United States v. Henry Affit Lejarde-Rada
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-01-28· cited 414×
• United States v. Villafuerte
  Second Circuit· 2007-09-21· cited 397×
• United States v. Smart
  Tenth Circuit· 2008-03-04· cited 363×
• United States v. Marion Promise, A/K/A Mario,defendant-Appellant
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-07-17· cited 343×
• United States v. Romero
  Tenth Circuit· 2007-06-29· cited 202×
• State v. Blackmon
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2010-06-09· cited 184×
• United States v. Nick S. Boscarino
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-02-08· cited 164×
• State v. GEORGIUS
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-05-12· cited 163×
• State v. Adamcik
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2012-01-25· cited 161×
• United States v. Daryl Lonard Parker, A/K/A Daryl Lenard Parker, A/K/A Junior Parker, A/K/A Jr Parker, A/K/A Jr, Daryl Lonard Parker
  Third Circuit· 2006-08-30· cited 158×
• United States v. Chavez-Hernandez
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-02-14· cited 132×
• State v. Roach
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-08-07· cited 127×
• United States v. Miranda
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-10-26· cited 124×
• United States v. James Russell, AKA Gaith Junior Douglas, AKA Steven Shawn Jones, James Russell, A/K/A Steven Shawn Jones
  Third Circuit· 1998-01-16· cited 122×
• United States v. Garcia
  Eighth Circuit· 1986-02-25· cited 120×