Bradley v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1975 · most notably Ludwig v. Johnson (1932), Pryor's Administrator v. Otter (1937)
5 federal appellate · 21 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 Stowe v. Morris · Tyler v. Stephan's Administratrix · Mullen & Haynes Co. v. Crisp · Keck's Administrator v. Louisville Gas & Electric Co. · Kennedy v. Wolf
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * With the mentioned conditions present, it may be that the child while operating the automobile with the parent’s consent is carrying out a purpose or business of a parent by discharging the undertaking of the parent to afford pleasure to those dependent upon him morally or legally. But where the parent is under no such moral or legal duty, and where the child is an adult and has assumed the station in life in which he relies upon his own abilities, the lending of a machine by the father to the son in order that the latter may take a pleasure trip of his own does not establish any relationship of principal and agent or master and servant, for in truth the adult son when so using the machine is not discharging any functions of the parent or carrying out any affair or business of the parent. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Keeney v. Smith
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.