Blake v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), Fleming v. State (1977)
12 federal appellate · 58 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 Gregg v. Georgia · People v. . Sullivan · 37 Cal. 2d 656 - People v. Chavez · Cawthon v. State · Pryor 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“torture, depravity of mind, or an aggravated battery to the victim.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]onsider[ed] torture and aggravated battery on the one hand as substantially similar treatment of the victim and depravity of mind on the other hand as relating to the defendant ....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman”
3 later decisions 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.