Blythe v. Hinckley’s Empirical Analysis
173 U.S. 501 · 1899
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 1976 · most notably Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (1912), Pennsylvania v. Williams (1935)
40 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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 Smith v. McKay · McQuade v. Inhabitants of City of Trenton · United States v. Rider · Blythe v. Hinckley
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a bill in equity to have a judgment of a circuit court in Indiana, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the state, declared null and void, and to obtain other relief dependent on that outcome”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norwood v. Parenteau
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.