Blevins v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Jarrell v. State (1975), Goodwin v. Balkcom (1982)
15 federal appellate · 24 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 Sims v. Balkcom · Cobb v. State · Burns v. State · Walker v. State · Lyens 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no statute or rule of procedure of force in this State which requires a solicitor general or other prosecuting officer to make his evidence, documentary or otherwise, available to the accused or his counsel before trial, ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryan v. State“No person shall be deprived of the right to prosecute or defend his own cause in any of the courts of this State, in person, by attorney, or both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryan 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.