Bullard v. City of Cisco’s Empirical Analysis
290 U.S. 179 · 1933
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 21 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 260 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2016 · most notably Edelman v. Jordan (1974), Moor v. County of Alameda (1973)
94 federal appellate · 21 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBullard v. City of Cisco (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Co. · Coal Company v. Blatchford · Crawford v. Neal · Williams v. Nottawa
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 260 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As the transfers under which the plaintiffs held the bonds and coupons were made to them as trustees, were real ... and invested them with the full title, they were entitled, by reason of their citizenship and of the amount involved, to bring the suit in the federal court. The beneficiaries were not necessary parties and their citizenship was immaterial.”); Bonnafee v. Williams, 44 U.S. (3 How.) 574, 577, 11 L.Ed. 732 (1845) (”
6 later decisions 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.