Blanton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2009
16 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 Penman v. Commonwealth · Kitchen v. Commonwealth · Page v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““THE COURT: I can’t go into that. That’s strictly a matter for the Parole Board. That’s strictly in the discretion of the Parole Board and they can parole a man any time they want to do so or deny a parole. I may say something about this, when I was Commonwealth Attorney a man was eligible for parole from a life sentence after he had served eight years but that’s been changed some and the Court of Appeals won’t let us say a word about parole. “JURY FOREMAN: They won’t let you say a word whatsoever. They won’t let you give us any information ? “THE COURT: They won’t let us give you the slightest information. It’s purely and simply a matter for the Parole Board.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is our opinion that the foregoing testimony fails to support appellant’s contention. This testimony is negative in character as it reflects the uncertainty of the physician as to whether or not there had been penetration. Moreover, there is no evidence from which the jury could have reasonably inferred a detaining of the child with intent to have carnal knowledge of her. Since the Commonwealth’s evidence showed appellant had committed rape and the appellant’s testimony showed he was not guilty by reason of his alibi, the issue in the case was adequately presented to the jury by an instruction covering the crime of rape and upon reasonable doubt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[W]hen the trial court is asked concerning parole, we say again that the court should refrain from commenting upon it at all and should direct the jury to reach a verdict upon the evidence and instructions it had previously heard.” Id. at 411 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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