Blackburne v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
43 F.2d 320 · 1930
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1972
4 federal appellate ·
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 26 U.S.C. § 1092
Relies on Greenway v. White · Tucker v. Alexander · Hume v. . Randall · Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. v. McCaughn · Whitlock-Rose v. McCaughn
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.
“[a] power is regarded as 'general' when it is not restricted by the donor to particular objects or beneficiaries, though the method of exercising it may be restricted and limited to a testamentary paper.”
2 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.