Brigham v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 1312 · 1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2008
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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 26 U.S.C. § 1245 · 26 U.S.C. § 1248 · 26 U.S.C. § 331 · 26 U.S.C. § 957 · 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act)
Relies on Thompson v. United States · Cass v. United States · Estate of Leonard E. Whitlock, Deceased, Cross-Appellants v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Cross-Appellee · United States v. Duncan
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may use available aids to construction no matter how clear a statute may appear on first inspection,”
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.