Blodgett v. Holden’s Empirical Analysis
275 U.S. 142 · 1927
Citation profile
282 federal appellate · 87 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 875 later decisions (142 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably Furman v. Georgia (1972), Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority (1936)
282 federal appellate · 87 district · 116 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Panama Co v. Johnson · Nichols v. Coolidge · United States ex rel. Attorney General of the United States v. Delaware & Hudson Co. · Hill v. Wallace
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 875 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is the gravest and most delicate duty that this Court is called on to perform.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in entire good faith and without the slightest premonition of such consequence”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * And, further, that so far as applicable to bona fide gifts not made in anticipation of death and fully consummated prior to June 2, 1924, those provisions are arbitrary and invalid under the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.