Blades v. Szatai’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Dickey v. Dickey (1928), Smith v. Gray Concrete Pipe Co. (1973)
70 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Hood v. Hood · Miller v. Miller · Creyts v. Creyts
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“who shall have the guardianship and custody of the children and be charged with their support and maintenance, and may at any time thereafter annul, vary or modify such order in relation to the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Foster v. Foster
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.