State v. Blackey’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably State v. Lipka (2002), State v. Bassett (1995)
25 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 United States v. Figueroa · State v. Lapage · United States v. Johnson · State v. Dushame · State v. Trainor
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of prior crimes, while inadmissible to prove the defendant’s bad character or disposition to commit the crime for which he is indicted, may be offered to prove an element of the crime or to show, inter alia, the defendant’s motive, intent or knowledge. In resolving the question of admissibility, the judge must determine that the evidence is relevant for a purpose other than showing the character or disposition of the defendant, that the proof that the acts in question were committed by the defendant is clear, and that the probative value of the evidence outweighs the danger of prejudice to the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Over one hundred years ago, this court stated an evidentiary rule that was well-settled even then: evidence of a defendant’s prior bad acts is not permitted to show in a prisoner a tendency or disposition to commit the crime with which he or she is charged. This principle has not lost any strength in the succeeding years and forms the foundation for our present Rule 404(b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that the person acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bassett
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.