Bless v. Blizzard’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 1959
20 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 Anderson v. Anderson · Warner v. Marshall · Berg v. Moreau · Reed v. Hazleton · Hazleton v. Reed
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A definite contract to leave the land to Bless by will was clearly and certainly established within the rule stated in Anderson v. Anderson, 75 Kan. 117 , 88 Pac. 743 . Much of the evidence consisted of statements of Noel to his neighbors and friends concerning the arrangement. ... So Noel said to Bless, ‘Stay with me and care for me until I die and I’ll will you my land.’ ” (pp. 232, 233.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nash v. Harrington
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.