Blackburn v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 1996 · most notably 71 Okla. Crim. 397 - Farrow v. State (1941), Henson v. Commonwealth (1961)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Mattingly v. Commonwealth · Craft v. Commonwealth · Conner v. Parsley · Miller v. Commonwealth · Bates 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not simply the expression of opinion, or the mere repetition of a rumor; it is a direct charge of the commission of an offense, based upon the actual knowledge of the person making the charge. We have heretofore held such an affidavit sufficient.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The affiant upon oath states that there is now in the possession of Floyd Blackburn spirituous liquors; that same is being sold in violation of the prohibition- law. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.