Brede v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis
263 U.S. 4 · 1923
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2025 · most notably Albrecht v. United States (1927), Kempe v. United States (1945)
27 federal appellate · 11 district · 20 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 Bain Jr · Ponzi v. Fessenden · Wong Wing v. United States · In re Bonner · Wilson
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any person who violates any of the provisions of section 331 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall on conviction thereof be subject to imprisonment for not more than one year, or a fine of not more thaii One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or both such imprisonment and fine.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wagers v. State
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.