Blair v. Durham’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.2d 260 · 1943
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1992 · most notably Briggs v. Pennsylvania Railroad (1948), Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. v. Amirault (1953)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Insurance Company v. Boon · Wight v. Nicholson · Washington & Georgetown Railroad v. Harmon's Administrator · In re Washington & Georgetown Railroad · United States v. Verdier
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Interest shall be allowed on any money judgment in a civil case recovered in a district court. * * * Such interest shall be calculated from the date of the entry of the judgment, at the rate allowed by State law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Interest accrues from the date of a judgment whether or not the judgment expressly includes it, because 'such interest follows as a legal incident from the statute providing for it.'”
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.