State v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Burdette (1999), State v. McHoney (2001)
77 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 Powers v. Temple · Bagwell v. McLellan Stores Co. · State v. Sharpe · Marshall v. Thomason · State v. Quillien
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under state practice, ... the statement must be both an excited utterance and a present sense impression to be admitted as a part of the res gestae.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Burdette
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.