Blackmon v. Booker’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.3d 399 · 2004
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2021
7 federal appellate ·
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 Maples v. Stegall · Petrucelli v. Coombe · Jerry McMeans v. Anthony J. Brigano, Warden,respondent-Appellee · Franklin v. Rose · Newton v. Million
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) reliance upon federal cases employing constitutional analysis; (2) reliance upon state cases employing federal constitutional analysis; (3) phrasing the claim in terms of constitutional law or in terms sufficiently particular to allege a denial of a specific constitutional right; or (4) alleging facts well within the mainstream of constitutional law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A petitioner need not cite “chapter and verse” of constitutional law, Franklin v. Rose, 811 F.2d 322, 326 (6th Cir.1987), but “[g]eneral allegations of the denial of rights to a ‘fair trial’ and ‘due process’ do not ‘fairly present claims’ that specific constitutional rights were violated.” McMeans [v. Brigano, 228 F.3d 674, 681 (6th Cir.2000) ] (citing Petrucelli v. Coombe, 735 F.2d 684, 688-89 (2nd Cir. 1984)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.