Blake v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1971
1 district · 11 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 DeVaughn v. McLeroy · Dean v. Central Cotton Press Co. · Sharp v. Findley · McGowan v. Lufburrow · Knapp v. Harris
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We look to the substance of the matter, and think the proceeding was not vitiated by certain obvious errors such as the misdescription of Mrs. Bailey as trustee, the will itself, which was exhibited to the chancellor, showing that she was not a trustee otherwise than by virtue of her office as executrix. . . This same mistake occurs in the deed which she afterwards made to the purchaser. But *Page 361 we think it affects the validity of the deed no more than it did the validity of the petition and the decree rendered thereon. . . Executors are trustees, and they are trustees having title to devised realty as well as to bequeathed personalty for the purpose of using the same, or the proceeds of the same, to pay debts and legacies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Perdue v. McKenzie
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.