Bletcher v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 2006
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kazalyn v. State · Powell v. State · Brackeen 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of another act or crime which is so closely related to an act in controversy or a crime charged that an ordinary witness cannot describe the act in controversy or the crime charged without referring to the other act or crime shall not be excluded, but at the request of an interested party, a cautionary instruction shall be given explaining the reason for its admission.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tabish v. State · Bellon v. State
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.