Blain v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1923 · most notably Meredith v. Meredith (1921), McNeer v. McNeer (1892)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The right of dower in a married woman is a mere intangible, inchoate, contingent expectancy; and even in a widow, until it is assigned it is no estate in the land, but it is a right resting in action only, and it can not be alienated.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Virgin v. Virgin
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.