Blake v. Doherty’s Empirical Analysis
18 U.S. 359 · 1820
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1963 · most notably Kimball Laundry Co. v. United States (1949), Hunnicutt v. Peyton (1880)
16 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 McIver's Lessee v. Walker and Another
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * It is, undoubtedly, essential to the validity of a grant, that there should be a thing granted, which must be so described as to be capable of being distinguished from other things of the same kind. But it is not necessary, that the grant itself should contain such a description as, without the aid of extrinsic testimony, to ascertain precisely what is conveyed. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Hart · Griego v. Hogan
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.