Braverman v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
317 U.S. 49 · 1942
Citation profile
1,137 federal appellate · 153 district · 319 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,133 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Pinkerton v. United States (1946), Brown v. Ohio (1977)
1,137 federal appellate · 153 district · 319 state decisions — followed in 36 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
reviewedBraverman v. United States (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Hyde v. United States · Ford v. United States · United States v. William Rabinowich
Cited together with Blockburger v. United States · Pinkerton v. United States · Glasser v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Albernaz 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 2,133 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the object of a single agreement is to commit one or many crimes, it is in either case that agreement which constitutes the conspiracy which the statute punishes. The one agreement cannot be taken to be several agreements and hence several conspiracies because it envisages the violation of several statutes rather than one.”
83 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. “If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may be that of only a single one of the conspirators and need not be itself a crime.”
5 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.