Blenko v. Schmeltz’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Falsetti v. Local Union No. 2026, United Mine Workers of America (1960), State Dental Council & Examining Board v. Pollock (1974)
30 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 Heasley v. Operative Plasterers & Cement Finishers International Ass'n, Local No. 31 · Maloney v. U. Mine Workers of A. · Trainer v. International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local No. 516 · State ex rel. Waring v. Georgia Medical Society
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Membership of such an association after it has been acquired in pursuance of the constitution, is a matter which is in itself legal property ...; the right of membership in such an association is recognized in the courts of Pennsylvania as property”
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.