Blagge v. Balch’s Empirical Analysis
162 U.S. 439 · 1896
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1997 · most notably United States v. Realty Co. (1896), Price v. Forrest (1899)
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 15 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 Cornelius Comegys and Andrew Pettit v. Ambrose Vasse · Williams v. Heard · Tillman v. . Davis · Jackson v. Jackson · Swasey v. Jaques.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That in all cases where the original sufferers were adjudicated bankrupts the awards shall be made on behalf of the next of kin instead of to assignees in bankruptcy, and the awards in the cases of individual claimants shall not be paid until the Court of Claims shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that the personal representatives on whose behalf the award is made represent the next of kin, and the courts which granted the administrations, respectively, shall have certified that the legal representatives have given adequate security for the legal disbursement of the awards."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““And this conclusion is in harmony with * * * section 1981 of the Revised Statutes in reference to recovery of damages by the legal representatives of persons killed by wrongful act in violation of the civil rights act of 1871, the Act of Congress of February 17, 1885, c. 126, 23 Stat. 307 , providing for actions in the District of Columbia for the death of persons caused by wrongful acts of others and generally with the statutes of the states giving a right of action for injuries resulting in death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“' “It often, happens' that administrators receive money which is not to he administered as part of the general assets, hut is to be distributed in a particular way.””
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.