Blair v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1958
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hall v. Cotton · Home Insurance Co. of N.Y. v. Wilson · Brice v. Hays · Jones v. Tye
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Specific performance of a contract to convey land will not be enforced unless from the description contained in the writing a stranger can determine the boundary sought to be conveyed.”' (Our emphasis)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mahaffey v. Wilson
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.