Bradford v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1854
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1944
14 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 Kean v. Dufresne
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ That if Neves and Taylor were jointly concerned in the purchase, although by a verbal arrangement between them, and Taylor acting for both caused the bill to be executed and took up the old note, without any express agreement on Bradford’s part to receive it in absolute payment and thereby to abandon the lien, he still has a right to look to the land to pay the balance due.””
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.