Blaine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2020
21 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 Cooper v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The verbiage of the statute appears not to have been selected hap-hazardly. It does not restrict the means to deadly weapons nor to an assault with intent to kill, nor does it require probability of death. The word”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[s]uch contention would be cogent only in the event (1) such means were never likely to produce death; or (2) such means as here used were not so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to be resolved according to the circumstances of each case.”
1 later decision 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.