Blake v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2000
1 federal appellate ·
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 Burnet v. Harmel · Poe v. Seaborn · Spring City Foundry Co. v. Commissioner · Anderson v. Helvering · Helvering v. Lazarus
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In consideration for the services heretofore performed and to be performed * * * I hereby bargain, sell and convey unto Mr. Blake an undivided one-fourth (¼th) part of all of my right, title and interest in said tract of land, * * *.”
2 later decisions 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.