Bradley v. Lightcap’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1979 · most notably Bradley v. Lightcap (1904), Koch v. Streuter (1908)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Edwards v. Kearzey · Terry v. Anderson · Bronson v. Kinzie · William Oliver and Micajah Williams v. Robert Piatt
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The sale discharged the land from the trust deed and transferred the lien created by contract into a statutory lien by the certificate of purchase, and the land was released as security for the balance of the debt.””
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.