Blake v. McClung’s Empirical Analysis
172 U.S. 239 · 1898
Citation profile
54 federal appellate · 41 district · 154 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 459 later decisions (89 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Doe v. Bolton (1973), Christopher Former Secretary of State et al. v. Harbury (2002)
54 federal appellate · 41 district · 154 state decisions — followed in 36 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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Chicago Co v. City of Chicago · Smyth v. Ames · Slaughter-House Cases the Butchers' Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live · Ex parte Virginia
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 459 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The constitution forbids only such legislation affecting citizens of the respective states as will substantially or practically put a citizen of one state in a condition of alienage when he is within or when he removes to another state, or when asserting in another state the rights that commonly appertain to those who are part of the political community known as the people of the United States, by and for whom the government of the Union was ordained and established.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The corporations, and the property of all corporations coming under the provisions of this act, shall be liable for all the debts, liabilities and engagements of the said corporations, to be enforced in the manner provided by law, for the application of the property of natural persons to the payment of their debts, engagements and contracts. “Nevertheless creditors who may be residents of this State shall have a priority in the distribution of assets, or subjection of the same, or any part thereof, to the payment of debts over all simple contract creditors, being residents of any other country or countries.””
3 later decisions 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.