Bedford v. . Terhune’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1966 · most notably Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. . Childs Co. (1921), Stewart v. . Long Island R.R. Co. (1886)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 63 state decisions — followed in 21 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.
Relationships
Relies on Schieffelin v. Carpenter · Robinson v. . Wheeler · Van Rensselaer's Heirs v. Penniman · Williams v. Woodard · Smith v. Niver
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant who is charged as assignee of a term is at liberty, in an issue on the assignment, to show that he holds the premises as under-tenant to the lessee, and not as assignee.”
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.