Blackburn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 377 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 380 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Patterson v. State (1975), Maldonado v. State (1976)
3 federal appellate · 377 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 ANTROBUS v. State · United States v. Hammonds · Bernard v. State · Robbins v. State · Johns 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 380 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . ‘there is a presumption that an attorney has discharged his duty fully, and it requires strong and convincing proof to overcome this presumption.’ . . . [citing cases]. . . . “. . . Isolated poor strategy, bad tactics, a mistake, carelessness, or inexperience does not necessarily amount to ineffective counsel unless, taken as a whole, the trial was a mockery of justice. . . .””
9 later decisions quote this exact passage““In this state, the offense charged in the indictment must be stated with such certainty that the accused, the court, and the jury may determine the crime for which conviction is sought. [Citatiofls omitted] The defendant must be given sufficient information to enable him to prepare his defense and to assure that he will not twice be put in jeopardy for the same crime. Ind.Const. art. I, § 13; See State v. Brown (1935), 208 Ind. 562 , 196 N.E. 696 .””
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hoever, purposely and maliciously, but without premeditation, kills any human being... .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Stinson v. State · Kelsie 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.