Noonan v. Bradley’s Empirical Analysis
76 U.S. 394 · 1869
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 14 district · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 144 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1995 · most notably Blackstone v. Miller (1903), Reynes v. Dumont (1889)
42 federal appellate · 14 district · 49 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Noonan v. Lee · Dixon's Executors v. Ramsay's Executors · Fenwick v. Sears's Administrators
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 144 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When an instrument is susceptible of two constructions — the one working injustice and the other consistent with the right of the case — that one should ■be favored which standeth with the right.””
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In the absence of any statute giving effect to the foreign appointment, all the authorities deny any efficacy to the appointment (of an administrator of the estate of a deceased person) outside of the territorial jurisdiction of the state within which it was granted. All hold that in the absence of such a statute no suit can be maintained by an administrator in his official capacity, except within the limits of the state from which he derives his authority. If he desires to prosecute a suit in another state, he must first obtain a grant of administration therein in accordance with its laws.” Noonan v. Bradley, 9 Wall. 394 , 19 L. Ed. 757 ; Graham v. Lybrand, supra.”
3 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.