Blake v. Sessions’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently November 1965
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Durland v. Durland · Lanham v. Lanham · Atkeson v. Sovereign Camp W. O. W. · Smith v. Fife · Scott v. State
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Wherever in this Constitution and laws of this State, the word or words, “colored” or “colored race,” “negro” or “negro race,” are used, the same shall be construed to mean or apply to all persons of African descent. The term “white race” shall include all other persons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Lorenzen
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.