Blazer v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 139 · 1952
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Myzel v. Fields (1967), Compton v. Alton Steamship Co. (1979)
48 federal appellate · 5 district · 9 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 Continental Collieries, Inc. v. Shober · Willoughby v. Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. · Clyde v. Broderick · Oldland v. Gray
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been the rule of Federal practice ... that while the pleader who amends or pleads over, waives his objections to the ruling of the court on indefiniteness, incompleteness or insufficiency, or more technical defects in pleadings, he does not waive his exception to the ruling which strikes “a vital blow to a substantial part” of his cause of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . [T]here are cogent reasons for applying that rule • here the officers and directors of the corporation have peculiar knowledge of. the condition and affairs of the Company — knowledge and information which is not readily available or imparted to the stockholders.” ( 196 F.2d at 146 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]hile the pleader who amends or pleads over, waives his objections to the ruling of the court on indefiniteness, incompleteness or insufficiency, . . . he does not waive his exception to the ruling which strikes `a vital blow to a substantial part' of his cause of action.”
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.