Bruno v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
308 U.S. 287 · 1939
Citation profile
558 federal appellate · 6 district · 212 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 911 later decisions (57 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Kotteakos v. United States (1946), Brecht v. Abrahamson (1993)
558 federal appellate · 6 district · 212 state decisions — followed in 32 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedUnited States v. Bruno (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Sparf v. United States · United States v. Bruno · Bruno 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 911 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The failure of any defendant to take the witness stand and testify in his own behalf, does not create any presumption against him; the jury is charged that it must not permit that fact to weigh in the slightest degree against any such defendant, nor should this fact enter into the discussions or deliberations of the jury in any manner.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(W)e have not yet attained that certitude about the human mind which would justify us in . . . a dogmatic assumption that jurors, if properly admonished, neither could nor would heed the instruction of the trial court . . . .”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“matters concerned with the mere etiquette of trials and with the formalities and minutiae of procedure----” Bruno v. United States, 308 U.S. 287 , 294, 60 S.Ct. 198 , 84 L.Ed. 257 (1939); see also United States v. Flanagan, 34 F.3d 949 , 955 (10th Cir.1994) (referring to technical errors as”
7 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.