Blair v. Hamilton’s Empirical Analysis
1867
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1922 · most notably In re the Bonds of the Madera Irrigation District (1891), Great Western Power Co. v. Pillsbury (1915)
31 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 People ex rel. Whitney v. Board of Delegates of San Francisco Fire Department · Lowe v. Alexander
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That the facts show a waiver on the part of the defendant (exceptant) of a justification on the part of the sureties does not admit of argument. To hold otherwise would enable the defendant to take advantage of his own wrong. Nor does the capacity of the defendant to make the waiver admit of debate.””
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.