Blanton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Randolph v. State (1954), Joseph, Pierce v. State (1957)
6 federal appellate · 29 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 Pitts v. State · Weer v. State · Harvey v. State · Dwigans v. State · Miller, Jr. 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment of conviction shall not be invalidated because of the failure of the record to show that the indictment or information was read to the defendant at arraignment or that the defendant entered a plea, unless the record shows that the defendant objected to entering upon the trial for lack of such arraignment or plea.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gee v. State · Heartfield v. State“The appellant by proceeding to trial without objection ... waived arraignment and the statute put in a plea of not guilty for him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Heartfield 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.