United States v. Bronson’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.2d 939 · 1944
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Rigas (2009), United States v. Barber (1971)
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 15 U.S.C. § 77Q (§ 17 of the Securities Act of 1933)
Relies on Abrams v. United States · Brooks v. United States · Pierce v. United States · Whitfield v. Ohio · Eleanor Erica Strong v. Francisco Gutierrez Repide
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.
“As is usual in such cases, we are urged— incidentally in a brief whose length and prolixity only serves to confuse the reader— to substitute ourselves for the jury and try the merits over again. We shall not labor the point that this we cannot do; but we do wish to emphasize that the established character of the scheme was alone enough to condemn it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]o accused person has any recognizable legal interest in being tried with another, accused with him, though he often has an interest in not being so tried.”
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.