Blodgett v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
250 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 289 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 83 Ohio App. 3d 103 - Maust v. Bank One Columbus, N.A. (1992), Lucarell v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. (Slip Opinion) (2018)
250 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 United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · 111 F. Supp. 945 - Fruhauf Southwest Garment Co. v. United States · Hartsville Oil Mill v. United States · Urban Plumbing & Heating Co. v. United States · 116 Ohio St. 361 - Lynch v. Board of Education
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 289 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a satisfaction of judgment renders an appeal from that judgment moot.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“To avoid a contract on the basis of duress, a party must prove coercion by the other party to the contract. It is not enough to show that one assented merely because of difficult circumstances that are not the fault of the other party.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that one side involuntarily accepted the terms of another; (2) that circumstances permitted no other alternative; and (3) that said circumstances were the result of coercive acts of the opposite party.”
6 later decisions 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.