Brogan v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
184 federal appellate · 26 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 443 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2026 · most notably Bousley v. United States (1998), Pasquantino v. United States (2005)
184 federal appellate · 26 district · 90 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. Wiener (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Sorrells v. United States · Sherman v. United States · Behrens v. Pelletier · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor
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 443 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts may not create their own limitations on legislation, no matter how alluring the policy arguments for doing so,....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[I]t is not, and cannot be, our practice to restrict the unqualified language of a statute to the particular evil that Congress was trying to remedy — even assuming that it is possible to identify that evil from something other than the text of the statute itself.... [This court has] acknowledge^] the reality that the reach of a statute often exceeds the precise evil to be eliminated.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[N]either the text nor the spirit of the Fifth Amendment confers a privilege to lie.”
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.