Blair v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 1978
16 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 Carpenter v. Carpenter · Hafer v. Hafer · Petty v. Petty · Chicago, Kansas & Western Railroad v. Board of Commissioners · Frye v. Frye
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘residence’ shall be construed to mean the place adopted by a person as such person’s place of habitation, and to which, whenever such person is absent, such person has the intention of returning. When a person eats at one place and sleeps at another, the place where such person sleeps shall be deemed such person’s residence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““An action for a divorce, or to annul a contract of marriage, or for alimony, may be brought in the county of which the plaintiff is an actual resident at the time of filing the petition or where the defendant resides or may be summoned."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Irvin v. Irvin
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.