Blais v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Kastal v. Hickory House, Inc. (1963), Lynch v. King (1978)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 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 Spencer v. Merchant · Parsons v. District of Columbia · Clark v. City of Janesville · Comm'rs of Leavenworth Co. v. Miller · Meier v. City of St. Louis
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general assembly shall have no powers, hereafter, without the express consent of the people, to incur state debts to an amount exceeding fifty thousand dollars, except in time of war, or in case of insurrection or invasion * '*”
1 later decision 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.