Blythe v. Enslen’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1981 · most notably Watkins v. Scott Paper Co. (1976), Adler v. Miller (1928)
6 federal appellate · 24 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 Wallace v. Lincoln Savings Bank · Wynn v. Tallapoosa County Bank · Hun v. . Cary · Mobile Life Insurance v. Randall · Winston v. Gordon
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that a subsisting, recognized and acknowledged trust, as between the trustees and cestui que trust, is not within the operation of the statute of limitations. But this rule must be understood as applying only to those technical and continuing trusts which are alone cognizable in a court of equity; and trusts which arise from an implication of law, or constructive trusts, are not within the rule, but are subject to the operation of the statute, unless there has been a fraudulent concealment of the cause of action, and the statute is as complete a bar in equity as at law.””
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.