Blackburn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1974 · most notably Slone v. Commonwealth (1931), Abbott v. Commonwealth (1947)
30 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 Harris v. Commonwealth · Terhune v. Commonwealth · Graham v. Commonwealth · Mearns v. Commonwealth · Bishop v. Commonwealth
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * where intent or purpose is an element of the crime the fact of drunkenness is admissible to show absence of the intent or purpose, and if the effect of such evidence is to lessen the offense, the accused is entitled to an instruction on the lesser and included offense, * * ⅜ ””
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.