Browne v. Thorn’s Empirical Analysis
260 U.S. 137 · 1922
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Corn Products Refining Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1955), South Carolina Cotton Growers' Co-Op. Ass'n v. Weil (1929)
13 federal appellate · 24 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
reviewedBrowne v. Thorn (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hill v. Wallace · Board of Trade v. Christie Grain & Stock Co. · Bibb v. Allen · Connors v. Illinois
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“^ “Hedging—a means whereby manufacturers and others who have to make contracts of purchase and sale in advance, secure themselves against fluctuations of the market by counter contracts—is prima fade lawful.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.