Blalock v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably McCleskey v. Kemp (1985), Williams v. State (2004)
3 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 Gunter v. State · Davis v. State · Drake v. State · Eubanks v. State · Knight 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prosecutor stated that he needed him for presentation of the case and that to require him to testify first would interfere with the orderly presentation of the case[,] ... we have found the exception of a witness from the rule of sequestration is within the discretion of the trial judge. [Cit.] We find no abuse of discretion and there is no merit to this enumeration of error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Williams 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.