Blakeley v. Rabon’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Ellie, Inc. v. Miccichi (2004), Sturkie v. Sifly (1984)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 Superior Automobile Insurance v. Maners · McPherson v. J. E. Sirrine & Co. · Heaton v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · KABLE v. Simmons · Stewart v. Morris
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot [read words] into a contract which impart intent wholly unexpressed when the contract was executed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. R.J. Griffin & Company, D/B/A Sebrell/griffin & Company, A/K/A Sebrell/griffin General Contractors v. Beach Club II Homeowners Association, Incorporated, R.J. Griffin & Company, D/B/A Sebrell/griffin & Company, A/K/A Sebrell/griffin General Contractors v. Beach Club III at Windy Hill, R.J. Griffin & Company, D/B/A Sebrell/griffin & Company, A/K/A Sebrell/griffin General Contractors v. Beach Club at Windy Hill Condominium Association · Rj Griffin Company v. Beach Club II Homeowners Association Incorporated Rj
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.