Dow v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably 12 Ill. 2d 502 - Light v. Light (1957), 121 Cal. App. 675 - San Diego Trust & Savings Bank v. Heustis (1932)
2 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Ambler v. Whipple · Adams v. Adams · Stewart v. Stewart · Allen v. Allen · McIntyre v. Sholty
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The pendency of an appeal which operates as a stay is a matter to be proven as a defense to, or in suspension of, the action.””
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.