Blake v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Degren v. State (1999), State v. Lancaster (1993)
56 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 Gooch v. United States · Smith v. Higinbothom · Bryant v. State · Berger v. State · People v. Coleman
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every person who shall be convicted of taking into his or her mouth the sexual organ of any other person or animal, or who shall be convicted of placing his or her sexual organ in the mouth of any other person or animal, or who shall be convicted of committing any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person or animal, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be imprisoned in jail or in the house of correction or in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding ten years, or shall be both fined and imprisoned within the limits above prescribed in the discretion of the court.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Assuming, without deciding, that the testimony as to the crime of sodomy is not within the scope of sec. 627 [unnatural and perverted sexual practices], although it is obviously an unnatural and perverted sexual practice, we think it was so closely linked to the crime charged as to fall within the exception noted, under the circumstances of this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. LaGrange v. Hinton““Penal statutes should be expressed in language as specific as the subject matter will permit, but it is obviously impossible to define some types of crime by a detailed description of all possible cases that may arise.... The words of a statute must be accorded the meaning naturally given them in ordinary usage.” (Emphasis added.)”
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.