Thorn v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis
257 F. 519 · 1919
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1988
12 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · United States v. Wiltberger · Capital Traction Co. v. Hof · William Parsons v. Bedford Breedlove · Nicol v. Ames
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Sec. 3. That upon each eonlract of sale of any cotton tor future delivery made at, on., or in any exchange, board of trade, or similar institution or place of business, there is hereby levied a tax in the nature of an excise of 2 cents for each pound of the cotton involved in any such contract.” “Sec. 4. That each contract of sale of cotton for future delivery mentioned in section three of this Act shall be in writing plainly stating, or evidenced by written memorandum showing, the terms of such contract, including the quantity of the cotton involved and the names and addresses of the seller and buyer in such contract, and shall be signed by the party to be charged, or by his agent in his behalf. If the contract or memorandum specify in bales the quantity of the cotton involved, without giving the weight, each bale shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to weigh five hundred pounds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Browne v. Thorn““When a legislative body selects and uses in a statute words or clauses which before the enactment of the law had acquired by judicial interpretation or common consent and use a well-understood meaning and legal effect, the legal presumption is that it intended that they should have that meaning and effect in the statute it enacts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Hannum“Stop ten seventeen twenty and ten seventeen fifteen”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Browne v. Thorn
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.