Turner v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Northrip v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n (1975), 21 Cal. 3d 268 - Garfinkle v. Superior Court (1978)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2201 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Stanley v. Illinois · Fuentes v. Shevin · Boddie v. Connecticut · Armstrong v. Manzo
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a streamlined version of a judicial sale, with the clerk exercising by detailed statutory authority many of the supervisory powers inherent in a court of equity”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the administration of the upset bid provisions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he direct participation by the clerk in the procedure by which plaintiff was deprived of ownership, and threatened to be deprived of possession of her property constituted state action.”
1 later decision 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.