Brown v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
3 U.S. 365 · 1797
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1985 · most notably Street v. United States (1890), Leary v. United States (1912)
9 federal appellate · 14 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Brown v. Van Braam
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The suspension of an act for a limited time, is not a repeal of it. *' * * The manifest intent of the suspending act was, that the act repealed by the repealing act, should continue in force until a day then future, the first of October, 1793. It could have had no other intent. And the intention of the Legislature, when discovered, must prevail, any rule of construction declared by previous acts, to the contrary notwithstanding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The act suspending the repealing act of November, 1792, is not within the act of 1789, which declares that the repeal of a repealing act shall not revive the act first repealed. The suspension of an act for a limited time is not a repeal of it; and the act of 1789, being in derogation of the common law, is to be taken strictly.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pepin TP. v. Sage
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.