Bledsoe v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1963
12 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 Russell v. Place · Barrow v. Hunton · Edmund Gaines and Wife v. Beverly Chew Rich · House v. Mullen · Corporation of Washington M'Cue v. Moses Young
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the charge of nullity of judgment had been coupled with a main and controlling demand, the question of validity of judgment could be inquired into and determined by any court having jurisdiction of that demand, which was the true or real object of the suit.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Decuir v. Decuir
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.