Braunfeld v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
359 federal appellate · 110 district · 340 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,254 later decisions (84 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher (1961), Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
359 federal appellate · 110 district · 340 state decisions — followed in 43 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1253
Relies on McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette · Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · United States v. Carolene Products Co.
Cited together with Sherbert v. Verner · Wisconsin v. Yoder · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · United States v. Lee
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 1,254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'invalid even though the burden may be characterized as being only indirect.'”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ut our concern is not with the wisdom of legislation but with its constitutional limitation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“On the first day of the week, commonly known and designated as Sunday, it shall be unlawful for any person whether it be at retail, wholesale or by auction, to sell, attempt to sell or offer to sell or to engage in the business of selling, as hereinafter defined, clothing or wearing apparel, building and lumber supply materials, furniture, home or business or office furnishings, household, business or office appliances, except as works of necessity or charity or as isolated transactions not in the usual course of the business of the participants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Fass
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.