Bearman v. Bracken’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 1973 · most notably Vacuum Oil Co. v. Brett (1931), Grayson v. Stith (1937)
24 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 Anderson v. Graham · McLaughlin v. Nettleton · Poff v. Lockridge · Manning v. Roanoke & Tar River Railroad · Spangenberg v. Galena Perforating Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For unavoidable casualty or misfortune preventing the party from prosecuting or defending. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thompson v. Hensley
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.