United States v. Bramblett’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
520 federal appellate · 62 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 779 later decisions (56 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2019 · most notably Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown (1997), United States v. Bass (1971)
520 federal appellate · 62 district · 28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. A case is still cited after being overruled — to note the reversal, distinguish it, or in dissent. 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 District of Columbia District Court)
Relationships
Relies on United States Marcus v. Hess · United States v. Gilliland · United States v. Cohn · Spivey 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 779 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or makes any false, fictitious or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not mean that every criminal statute must be given the narrowest possible meaning in complete disregard of the purpose of the legislature.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States.”
12 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.