Blair v. . Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1878
Citation profile
1 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1981 · most notably Schuylkill Fuel Corp. v. B. & C. Nieberg Realty Corp. (1929), Last Chance Min Co v. Tyler Min Co (1895)
1 district · 37 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But, if of value, they could not have been useless; and, if of use, they could not have been harmful; and, if not harmless, there could not have been mala praxis in the performance of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Schopen v. Baldwin
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.