Browder v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
312 U.S. 335 · 1941
Citation profile
160 federal appellate · 18 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 305 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States v. Classic (1941), Ratzlaf et Ux United States (1994)
160 federal appellate · 18 district · 30 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
reviewedUnited States v. Browder (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · United States v. Murdock · De Lima v. Bidwell · Pickhardt v. Merritt
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 305 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile a statute speaks from its enactment, [it] embraces everything which subsequently falls within its scope.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“willfully and knowingly make[] any false statement in an application for passport with intent to induce or secure the issuance of a passport under the authority of the United States, either for his own use or the use of another, contrary to the laws regulating the issuance of passports or the rules prescribed pursuant to such laws.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The plain meaning of the words' of the act covers this use. No single argument has more weight in statutory interpretation than this.””
4 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.