Blacker v. Thatcher’s Empirical Analysis
145 F.2d 255 · 1944
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2021
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Brillhart v. Excess Insurance Co. of America · Meredith v. City of Winter Haven · McClellan v. Carland · Waterman v. Canal-Louisiana Bank & Trust Co. · Byers v. McAuley
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.
“A will is to be construed according to the intention of the testator. Where his intention cannot have effect to its full extent, it must have effect as far as possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * the assumption by the federal court of authority to construe the will, now in process of probate, smacks of gratuitous interference rather than of the spirit of comity which ought to obtain between courts of independent and coordinate jurisdictions.” Blacker v. Thatcher, 145 F.2d 255, 257 , 158 A.L.R. 1 (9th Cir., 1944).”
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.