Bradner Smith & Co. v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 1957 · most notably Wahl v. Schmidt (1923), Chicago Title & Trust Co. v. Corporation of the Fine Arts Building (1919)
2 federal appellate · 29 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Union Trust Co. v. Trumbull · Kingsbury v. Powers · Johnson v. Leman · Sperry v. Fanning · Nichols v. Sargent
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The inconsistency of the remedies is essential to preclude the resort to one after having adopted another, and the party must actually have two remedies and' not merely suppose that he has, for a mistake in his remedy in one case is not a bar in the other. ’ ’”
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.