Blakey v. Brinson’s Empirical Analysis
286 U.S. 254 · 1932
Citation profile
117 federal appellate · 21 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 229 later decisions (9 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1994 · most notably Texas Pac Ry Co v. Pottorff (1934), Jennings v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (1935)
117 federal appellate · 21 district · 35 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedSchumacher v. Brinson (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Planters' Bank v. Union Bank · Manhattan Co. v. Blake · Northwest Lumber Co. v. Scandinavian American Bank · Phœnix Bank v. Risley
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 229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This is to advise you that we have this day charged /our account as follows: 4,000 Fourth L. L. 4%% Bonds... $3,960.00 Ace. Int....................... .60 Commission ................... 4.00 $3,964.60””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The debit entry may be disregarded because respondent's assent to it was procured by a false statement; but the only consequence is that his status as a creditor is unaffected.”
1 later decision 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.