Voorheis v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
89 F. 885 · 1898
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1930
2 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. · Humes v. Scruggs · Garner v. Second Nat. Bank of Providence · Lyon v. . Akin · Walker v. . Long
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But as the testmvany shews that the building upoñ the lot has been destroyed by fire, and a new bailding erected on the premises in part with moneys advanced by the widow of W. P. Blanton, with whom J. I). Blanton became associated in business subsequently (the transaction herein condemned), and as the said widow was in no wise implicated in the sanie, it is adjudged that she have a lien on the premises to the amount of the money expended out of her estate for the erection of the building now standing thereon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Voorheis v. Blanton
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.