People v. Blue’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 169 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 101 Wash. 2d 664 - State v. Rupe (1984), Weissman v. Board of Ed. of Jefferson Cty. Sch. Dist. (1976)
2 federal appellate · 169 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Dombrowski v. Pfister · United States v. Petrillo · Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“conduct which would otherwise constitute an offense is justifiable and not criminal when it is necessary as an emergency measure to avoid an imminent public or private injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not abrogate [a previous offender's] right to legitimately use self-defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.