In re Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
318 U.S. 50 · 1943
Citation profile
149 federal appellate · 3 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions (18 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947), United States v. DiFrancesco (1980)
149 federal appellate · 3 district · 38 state decisions — followed in 12 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
reviewedYavorsky v. United States (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Ex parte Lange · Clark v. United States · Ex parte Robinson · In re Fletcher
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a full satisfaction of one of the alternative penalties of the law”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Under § 268 of the Judicial Code, 28 U.S.C. § 385, (the predecessor section) the sentence could only be a fine or imprisonment.”
1 later decision 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.