Bliss v. Bliss’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.2d 1002 · 1931
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 1994
12 federal appellate · 2 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 Pennoyer v. Neff · Speidel v. Henrici · Thompson v. Tanner · Bunnell v. Bunnell · Shipley v. Shipley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]ndependently of any statute of limitations, courts of equity uniformly decline to assist a person who has slept upon his rights, and shows no excuse for his laches in asserting them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Detweiler v. Pena
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.