Blau v. Lehman’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
262 federal appellate · 41 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 632 later decisions (53 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2020 · most notably Neil v. Biggers (1972), International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States (1977)
262 federal appellate · 41 district · 17 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBlau v. Lehman (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Meinhard v. Salmon · Board of Com'rs of Jackson County Kan v. United States · Toucey v. New York Life Insurance · Mosser v. Darrow
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 632 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is given in response to considerations of fairness. It is denied when its exaction would be inequitable.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“— within any period of less than six months. (Emphasis supplied.) 23 The Securities Act defines”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“both courts below denied interest here and we cannot say that the denial was either so unfair or so inequitable as to require us to upset it.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.