Bryson v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
390 federal appellate · 55 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 681 later decisions (32 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably United States v. Havens (1980), United States v. Mandujano (1976)
390 federal appellate · 55 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 20 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
reviewedUnited States v. Bryson (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Dennis v. United States · American Communications Ass'n v. Douds · Plessy v. Ferguson · Williamson v. United States · United States v. Brown
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 681 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our legal system provides methods for challenging the Government's right to ask questions--lying is not one of them.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully— (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he term 'jurisdiction' should not be given a narrow or technical meaning for purposes of Sec. 1001.”
7 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.