Blakesley v. Ransonet’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2013
20 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.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The contract in this respect may be a hard one for the defendant, but it is one that the parties were competent to make, and had the right to make. It is the law between them, and the court has no alternative except to enforce it as written."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.