Blundell v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Spaniard v. Tantom (1928), Blundell v. Wallace (1925)
23 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 Jefferson v. Fink · Rual Taylor v. Mrs Allie Parker · Lynde-Bowman-Darby Co. v. Brown
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Every estate and interest in real, or personal property to which heirs, husband, widow, or- next of kin might succeed, may be disposed of by will: Provided, that no marriage contract in writing has been entered- into between the parties; no man while married shall bequeath more than two-thirds of his property, away from his wife, nor shall any woman while married bequeath more than two-thirds of her -property away from her husband; Provided, further, that no person who is prevented by law from alienating, conveying or encumbering real property while living shall be allowed to bequeath same by, will.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ Every person of lawful age and sound mind may by last will and testament devise and bequeath all of his estate, real and personal, and all interest therein: Provided, That no will of a full-blood Indian devising real-estate shall be valid, if such last will and testament disinherits the parent, wife, spouse, or children of such full-blood Indian, unless acknowledged before and approved by a judge of the United States court for the Indian Territory, or a United States commissioner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the Indian to dispose of his estate on the,same footing as any other citizen, with the limitation contained in the proviso thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Blundell v. Wallace
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.