Blair v. Sennott’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Martin v. Martin (1897), Dinsmoor v. Bressler (1896)
28 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 Hyslop v. Finch · Commissioners of Highways of Sonora v. Supervisors of Carthage, Prairie & Montebello · Thomas v. People ex rel. Joiner · Matthews v. Hoff · Williams v. Conley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Money of the principal in the hands of the agent is still the money of the principal, and the agent has no right to use it or pay it out for his own private purposes. While he has the money, he is not technically the creditor (debtor) of his principal, but simply his trustee.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mulvihill v. White“‘ ‘ The proceeding may be repeatedly instituted against the same party.””
1 later decision 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.