Bradley v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably American Southern Insurance Co. v. Dime Taxi Svc., Inc. (1963), City of Birmingham v. Trammell (1958)
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 Clews v. Jamieson · William Wallace v. Corry M'Connell · Wilkins, Neely & Jones v. Gibson · Patton v. Darden · Westmoreland & Trousdale v. Foster
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In the case of State v. Parker , 72 Ala. 181 [(1882)], it was observed: 'A contract of suretyship is usually defined to be a contract whereby one person engages to be answerable for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. . . . It was further observed: "The debt is due from the principal, and the surety is merely a guarantor for its payment. . . .' " "And in the case of Tennessee-Hermitage National Bank v. Hagan , 218 Ala. 390 , [395,] 119 So. 4 , 9 [(1928)], it was said: 'The relation of principal and surety is also defined as, when one is liable to pay the debt or discharge the obligation, or [and] is entitled, if enforced against him, to indemnity from him who ought to have made the payment or performed before the surety was so compelled.' "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the case of State v. Parker , 72 Ala. 181 [(1882)], it was observed: 'A contract of suretyship is usually defined to be a contract whereby one person engages to be answerable for the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. . . . It was further observed:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.