Blount v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
April 1964
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wears v. Hudspeth · Graves v. Amrine
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . any prisoner at large upon parole or conditional release, who shall commit a fresh crime, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced anew to the penitentiary, shall be subject to serve the second sentence after the first sentence is served or annulled, said second sentence to commerce from the termination of his liability upon the first or former sentence.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sterbenz v. Hand
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.