Blanchard v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1997
5 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 Derdyn v. Low · Yarbrough v. Bellamy · Abrams v. Neal · Mahan v. Dunkleman · McKeever v. Parker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * ⅜ * ‘Most' certainly it cannot be seriously- urged by plaintiff that he is entitled to have such testimony considered for one purpose, but that the admission thereof must be considered erroneous for any other purpose. If the testimony objected to is'to be held erroneous for oné purpose, then it cannot be considered for any other purpose. Under ..no circumstances can plaintiff rely upon .certain testimony in an effort to establish the issue in. his case and then, in the same breath .assert prejudicial error based upon the selfsame evidence. * * * ””
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.