Blanset v. Cardin’s Empirical Analysis
261 F. 309 · 1919
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1982
2 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Heckman v. United States · Tiger v. Western Investment Co. · United States v. Cerecedo Hermanos y Compañia · In re Kollock · McKinley v. United States
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.
“Every estate and interest in real or personal property to which heirs, husband, widow, or next of kin might succeed, may be disposed of by will: Provided, that no marriage contract in writing has been entered into between the parties; no man while married shall bequeath more than two-thirds of his property away from his wife, nor shall any woman while married be queath more than two-thirds of her property away from her husband; . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanset v. Cardin“operate to terminate the trust or restrictive period, but the . Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, . . . cause patent in fee to be issued to the devisee or devisees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanset v. Cardin“protection to dependent and natural heirs against the waste of the estate as the result of an unfortunate marriage and enforced inheritance by. state laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanset v. Cardin
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.