Blake v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Walzer v. Osborne (2006), Rush v. State (2008)
115 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 3600 (Innocence Protection Act of 2004) · 42 U.S.C. § 3721 (National Commission to Support Law) · 42 U.S.C. § 3722
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Mayor of Oakland v. Mayor of Mountain Lake Park · Deville v. State · MacKey v. Compass Marketing, Inc.
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“avoid a construction of [a] statute that is unreasonable, illogical, or inconsistent with common sense,'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(i) is related to an investigation or prosecution that resulted in a judgment of conviction; (ii) is in the actual or constructive possession of a law enforcement agency or agent of a law enforcement agency; and (iii) contains biological evidence from which DNA may be recovered that may produce exculpatory or mitigating evidence relevant to a claim of a convicted person of wrongful conviction or sentencing if subject to DNA testing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arey v. State · Edwards v. State“[a]n unsworn memorandum, stating that the State merely requested the police to look in the evidence control unit, is insufficient to establish [that the evidence no longer exists.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Arey v. State · Blake 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.