Blewitt v. . Boorum’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Jamestown Business College Assn. v. . Allen (1902), Kerwin v. Donaghy (1945)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Reynolds v. . Robinson · Worrall v. . Munn · Gilbert v. North American Fire Insurance · Cocks v. . Barker · Lovett v. Adams
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he rule in this state regarding deeds conveying real estate, or an interest therein, or agreements for the sale thereof, is that a delivery cannot be made to the grantee or other party thereto conditionally or as is said in escrow, and when delivered to a party the delivery operates at once and the condition [precedent] is unavailable” (id.).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Torres v. D'Alesso
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.