Bradley v. City of Richmond’s Empirical Analysis
227 U.S. 477 · 1913
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 160 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1994 · most notably Yakus v. United States (1944), City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co. (1988)
16 federal appellate · 21 district · 66 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 Ex Parte: Edward T Young · Boyd v. United States · Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Connolly v. Union Sewer Pipe Co. · Gulf Ry Co v. Ellis
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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to render the classification illegal, the party assailing it must show that the business discriminated against is precisely the same as that included in the class alleged to be favored.””
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.