Blodgett v. Hitt’s Empirical Analysis
1871
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1978 · most notably Platter v. Board of Commissioners (1885), Cowie v. Strohmeyer (1912)
29 state decisions — followed in 16 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.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such principle has the highest and most persuasive equity, a9 well as common sense and common justice, for its foundation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Spotts v. Wolf
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.