# Brown v. Williams

> Supreme Court of the United States · October 20, 1997 · 522 U.S. 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9162702

## Case

- **Full name:** BROWN v. WILLIAMS
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** October 20, 1997
- **Citations:** 522 U.S. 1; 118 S. Ct. 1
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Stevens
- **Judges:** Stevens
- **Cited by:** 14 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9162702

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- stating that there is a presumption in the Bankruptcy Code that "equivalent words have equivalent meaning when repeated in the same statute....”
- describing § 1326(b) as "a penalty provision” that "does , not define a separate crime”

## Opinion text

Justice Stevens,
dissenting.
For reasons previously stated, see Martin v. District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 506 U. S. 1, 4 (1992), and cases cited, I respectfully dissent.

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9162702. Public record. Not legal advice.