Mills v. Blakelin’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2006
4 federal appellate · 17 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 Ware v. Minot · Kelley v. Meins · Crowell v. Chapman · Sewall v. Elder · Bramley v. White
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is unnecessary to refer to other provisions concerning the management of the property because, as the ownership in fee was given to the children at the death of their mother, their estate cannot be cut down by subsequent provisions repugnant to or inconsistent with their devises. Kelley v. Meins, 135 Mass. 231 ; Damrell v. Hartt, 137 Mass. 218 ; Merrill v. Webster, 187 Mass. 562 , 73 N.E. 672 ; Pitts v. Milton, 192 Mass. 88 , 77 N.E. 1028 , 116 Am.St.Rep. 223 ; Galligan v. McDonald, 200 Mass. 299 , 86 N.E. 304 , 128 Am.St.Rep. 421 ; Davis v. Davis, 225 Mass. 311 , 114 N.E. 309 ; O’Reilly v. Irving, 284 Mass. 522 , 188 N.E. 253 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.