Block v. People’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1988 · most notably Breithaupt v. Abram (1957), People v. Haeussler (1953)
34 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 Boyd v. United States · Holt v. United States · Albert Adams v. People of the State of New York · Ingles v. People · State ex rel. Attorney General v. Simmons Hardware Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * But the prohibition of compelling a man in a criminal court to be witness against himself is a prohibition of the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications from him, not an exclusion of his body as evidence when it may be material. The objection in principle would forbid a jury to look at a prisoner and compare his features with a photograph in proof. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Berg
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.