Blessing v. Blessing’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably LoPiccolo v. LoPiccolo (1977), Jaeger v. Jaeger (1977)
29 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 Murphy v. Carron · North v. North · In Re the Marriage of Powers · Homan v. Employers Reinsurance Corp. · Gerber v. Schutte Investment Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While a litigant has a right to be present at his own hearing and the right to attend the trial, the principle is well established that the granting or denial of a continuance, even on the ground of illness, rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.” Blessing v. Blessing, 539 S.W.2d 699 (Mo.App.1976) [3,4]. See also, Albi v. Reed, 281 S.W.2d 882 (Mo.1955) [10,11].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ronollo v. Ronollo
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.