Blake v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1967
10 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 Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad v. Van Steinburg · Thornburgh v. Hand · Ferguson v. Rutherford · Haynes v. Ledyard · Coates v. Hopkins
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A cross-examination is not limited to the very day and exact fact named in the direct examination. It may extend to other matters which limit, qualify or explain the facts stated on the direct examination, or modify the inferences deducible therefrom, providing only that such matters are directly connected with the facts testified to in chief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bassett v. Glass
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.