Bryan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
175 F.2d 223 · 1949
Citation profile
73 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Bryan v. United States (1950), Bell v. United States (1950)
73 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2106
Relies on Ball v. United States · United States v. Johnson · State of Louisiana Francis v. Resweber · Stroud v. United States · Trono 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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The net worth-expenditures method of establishing net income * * * is effective only if the computations of net worth at the beginning and at the end of the questioned periods can reasonably be accepted as accurate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The majority thinking the defect in the evidence might be supplied on another trial directed that it be had.”
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.