Bruno v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
259 F.2d 8 · 1958
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 1983 · most notably Cellino v. United States (1960), United States v. Johnson (1983)
36 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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
Relies on Roviaro v. United States · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Weems v. United States · Brasfield 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Facilitate,’ as used in this statute (21 U.S.C.A., § 174), has been defined as follows: ‘to make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; as to facilitate the execution of a task.’ Cellino v. United States, 9 Cir., 1960, 276 F.2d 941 , 943; Bruno v. United States, 9 Cir., 1958, 259 F.2d 8 ; Pon Wing Quong v. United States, 9 Cir., 1940, 111 F.2d 751 .””
3 later decisions 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.