Jackson v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1984
5 federal appellate · 13 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 Hampton v. Stevenson · Hicks v. State · Williams v. Davidson · Law v. McCord · Thomas 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court is entirely in sympathy with the beneficent purposes of the Juvenile Court Act of 1951. However, we can only uphold the purposes of the Act consistent with our Constitution. Should any of the provisions of the Juvenile Court Act of 1951 have been intended to withdraw the jurisdiction of the superior courts to try an offender, ... for an offense punishable by death or life imprisonment ... such provisions would be unconstitutional and could be given no effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dorsey v. State
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.