Blaisdell v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 1993
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Anne Sweeney v. William G Errving · Humphrey v. Twin State Gas & Electric Co. · Higgins, Admr. v. Metzger · Chiles v. Fort Smith Commission Co. · Riggsby v. Tritton
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. While there is confusion among the cases upon the point, the weight of authority seems to be otherwise and to hold: “ ‘That, if the case is a proper one for the application of the doctrine, the plaintiff by pleading the particular cause of the accident in no way loses his right to rely thereon.’ (Authorities)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“argument that by alleging specific acts of negligence and giving or offering evidence tending to support them a plaintiff forfeits his right to rely upon [res ipsa loquitur].”
1 later decision 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.