Blann v. Crocheron’s Empirical Analysis
1852
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1981
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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To determine the plaintiff's right to elect [his remedy], he must act. Were he to order execution to issue on the judgment in his favor; or, in case of payment to the clerk, as in this case, were he to accept the money, his election would be considered as having been made; and it might be specially pleaded by a co-trespasser, against whom a suit was then pending, as an estoppel. But to make the plea good, it should aver that the sum so paid in satisfaction was accepted by the plaintiff as such. [Emphasis in original.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.