Blackburn v. McLaughlin’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably Cowin v. Salmon (1943), Asbury v. Cochran (1942)
45 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 Bethea v. McCullough · Zirkle v. Ball · Ashurst v. Peck · Sheffield Furnace Co. v. Hull Coal & Coke Co. · Homan v. Stewart
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to specific performance in a court of equity grows out of the contract, not out of a breach of it by defendant, and when complainant avers his readiness, willingness, and ability to perform, he avers all that is necessary to invoke the jurisdiction of the court.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Now that complainant has filed his bill, there can be no question about mutuality of obligation between the parties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baker v. Howison
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.