Born v. Bluestein’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1982
4 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 Eaton v. Husted · Hand v. Errington · Rice v. Ward · Spencer v. Pettit · Spencer v. Pettit
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * The present suit was filed within a short time after the appellee E. Bluestein learned of the existence of his mother's will and of the facts surrounding his ownership of a portion of her property. We believe the rule is well established that limitation did not begin to run against the sons as beneficiaries under their mother's will until they learned of the existence of the will and the surrounding facts of ownership in 1945. * * *"”
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.