Blackburn v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1953
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.
Relationships
Relies on Brown v. Vancleave · Harding v. Harding · Meadows v. Goff · Trade Discount Co. v. J. R. Cox & Co. · Perry v. Covington Savings Bank & Trust Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A final judgment is such one as definitely settles the rights of the parties, and puts an end to the controversy between them, and gives to the successful litigant relief by its own force without further action by the court. Perry v. Covington Savings Bank, 195 Ky. 40 (241 ,S. W. 850); Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. McDonald, 177 Ky. 838 ( 198 S. W. 225 ); Trade Discount Co. v. Cox, 143 Ky. 515 ( 136 S. W. 901 ); Harding v. Harding, 145 Ky. 315 ( 140 S. W. 533 ).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Lee
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.