Block v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Pulley v. State (1980), Ward v. State (1981)
81 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 Benton v. Maryland · Ball v. United States · Grafton v. United States · Neal v. State · Pugh 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the present case, the District Court had jurisdiction over the offense at the time the verdict of not guilty was rendered. As in Parojinog , the fact that the court may not have been authorized under the rules to render the verdict does not make it void for double jeopardy purposes. The cases make it clear that an improper or defective exercise of jurisdiction does not deprive an acquittal of its finality. Instead, as long as the court rendering a not-guilty verdict has jurisdiction over the offense, the verdict is a bar to further criminal proceedings on the same charge. [ Id. at 273-74, 407 A.2d 324 (citation omitted)]; 3”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moulden · Parks v. State“a. Motion of Defendant. Upon motion of the defendant filed within three days after a verdict the court, in the interest of justice, may order a new trial. * ⅜ * c. Revisory Power of Court. For a period of 90 days after the imposition of a sentence, if no appeal has been perfected, or thereafter, pursuant to a motion filed within that period, the court has revisory power and control over the judgment to set aside an unjust or improper verdict and grant a new trial. After the expiration of that period, the court has revisory power and control over the judgment only in case of fraud, mistake or irregularity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson 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.