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State v. Blizzard’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

46
cited by 46 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Jones (1981), State v. Furr (1977)

2 federal appellate · 42 state decisions

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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 State v. Stephens · State v. Bruton · State v. Bryant · State v. . Combs · State v. Arsad

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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “To warrant a conviction on circumstantial evidence, the facts and circumstances must be sufficient to constitute substantial evidence of every essential element of the crime charged. Guilt must be a legitimate inference from facts established by the evidence. When the facts and circumstances warranted by the evidence do no more than raise a suspicion of guilt, they are insufficient to make out a case and a motion to dismiss should be allowed.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Eldred · State v. Daniels
  2. “defendant's evidence which rebuts the inference of guilt when it is not inconsistent with the State's evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Atwood
  3. “the defendant's evidence which explains or makes clear the evidence of the State may be considered”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Atwood

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.