Railroad Company v. Bradleys’s Empirical Analysis
74 U.S. 575 · 1868
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1942 · most notably St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad v. Southern Express Co. (1883), Conboy v. First National Bank (1906)
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 7 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.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thc.ro is no doubt that, during the term, the decree was, at all times, subject to be rescinded or modified, upon motion, and could not, therefore, be regarded as absolutely final until the end of the term. It became final, in this case, when the motion to rescind had been heard and denied. This took place on the 13th of March, and on the 20th the appeal was prayed in open court, and on the 23d the bond on appeal was approved and filed. We think this was in time, and the motion for supersedeas must therefore be allowed.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Evans · Sanborn v. Bay
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.