Bruner v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
213 federal appellate · 44 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 466 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Landgraf v. USI Film Products (1994), Lindh v. Murphy (1997)
213 federal appellate · 44 district · 35 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Kline v. Burke Construction Co. · Lynch v. United States · Ex parte McCardle · Lockerty v. Phillips · Hallowell v. Commons
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 466 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a law conferring jurisdiction is repealed without any reservation as to pending cases, all cases fall with the law....”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“alter[ ] the nature or validity of petitioner's rights . . . [but] simply reduce[s] the number of tribunals authorized to hear and determine such rights and liabilities.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statute is not to be given retroactive effect unless such construction is required by explicit language or by necessary implication.”
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.