Smith v. Bradford’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1989
22 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 Brown v. . Quintard · Hartwell v. Tefft · 44 N.J. Eq. 450 - Bishop v. Executors of McClelland · Pearce v. Rickard · Jones v. Gane
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the circumstances, as said by the court in its opinion, as nothing appears in the will to limit the legal import of the word ‘issue,’ the word thus used included all descendants; that as the statute of adoption gives to an adopted child the status of a descendant, the adopted child was entitled to the fund.””
2 later decisions 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.