Bedford v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2009
11 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
Relies on Fairall v. Frisbee
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.
“[w]e think the evident contemporary interpretation of those actively promoting the amendment, should be accorded considerable weight.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In addition to what we have said otherwise and which is our considered judgment, we think the rule of contemporaneous construction justifies our determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Redmon v. Davis
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.