Blodget v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 1960
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 Grigg v. United States · Bull v. Commissioner · Klein v. Commissioner · Straight v. Commissioner · Vanderbilt v. Commissioner
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was a valuable contractual right or chose in action constituting a part of the assets of William Blodget which passed on his death to the executors of his estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wood v. Commissioner
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.