Blatchford v. Milliken’s Empirical Analysis
1864
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1923
13 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 Bogue v. Melick · Carroll v. Weld
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ It is the settled law of this State, that a person who is not a party to a promissory note which is to become a valid obligation against the maker upon its delivery to the payee, by writing his name in blank upon the back of the note, is presumed to assent to the obligation of a guarantor. 3 Scam. 437 ; 3 Id. 497 ; 13 Ill. 682 ; 14 Id. 240; 17 Id. 465; 25, Id. 91.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pike v. Hately
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.