Blunt's v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
20 U.S. 248 · 1822
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently February 1985
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Murray's v. Baker · Frier v. Jackson ex dem. Van Allen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In Kentucky and in Virginia the rule is that a court of common law cannot look beyond the patent; but in Tennessee it is understood to be otherwise. The courts of law in that state allow the parties in an ejectment to go back to the original entry and to connect the patent with it. This rule is founded on the land laws of North Carolina, which has been construed in Tennessee to permit and require it. * * * The effect of entries, then, as well as their dates, is considered by the courts of Tennessee.””
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.