Bryson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 657 · 1956
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2023 · most notably Bryson v. United States (1969), Killian v. United States (1962)
59 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 4 · 29 U.S.C. § 141 (§ 1 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act))
Relies on Dunn v. United States · Opper v. United States · Mattox v. United States · Smith v. United States · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This and other courts have condemned the practice of interviewing jurors on the course of their deliberations in the jury room. It is incumbent upon the courts to protect jurors from the annoyance and harassment of such conduct.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““A verdict on one count of an indictment cannot have the effect of determining factual issues under another count, even though the same evidence is offered in support of both counts. The legal sufficiency of the evidence to support each vferdict must be determined without reference to the other. Dunn v. United States, 1932, 284 U.S. 390 , 52 S.Ct. 189 , 76 L.Ed. 356 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The weight of the evidence, including all factors of credibility which do not render the testimony incredible as a matter of law is beyond the scope of appellate review of jury verdicts.””
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.