Colvin v. Blanchard’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Henderson Grant v. Gilbert (1914), Bourland v. Huffhines (1924)
49 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We must affirm the judgment of the court below in this case (denying- the specific performance), because the agents, in making the sale, did not observe the limitation of their authority expressly stated in the letter which conferred that power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prichard v. Foster
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.