Blood v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 640 · 1945
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably State v. Maldonado (1962), United States v. Morin (1959)
17 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 595
Relies on McNabb v. United States · United States v. Mitchell · Blood v. Hudspeth
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.
“"The proper application of the McNabb doctrine was demonstrated in United States v. Mitchell, 322 U.S. 65 , 64 S.Ct. 896, 897 , 88 L.Ed. 1140 , in which it was emphasized that the vice at which the McNabb case was directed was `inexcusable detention for the purpose of illegally extracting evidence from an accused, and the successful extraction of such inculpatory statements by continuous questioning for many hours under psychological pressure,' and that a conviction thus obtained could not stand. But the mere fact that the accused was illegally detained in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. § 595 , does not of itself void a conviction based upon competent evidence...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cherniwchan 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.