Bryant v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
462 F.2d 433 · 1972
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 5845 (§ 201 of the Gun Control Act of 1968)
Relies on Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Bass · United States v. Freed · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. United States · Kennedy v. Powell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is one of the chief duties of a trial judge to clarify the testimony of witnesses. His attempt to do so should not be a basis of error unless done in a biased manner.”
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.