Bradstreet v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
37 U.S. 174 · 1838
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1972
1 federal appellate ·
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.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is a safer repository of the adjudications of courts, than the remembrance of judges; and their declaration of them is no proof of their existence.”
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.