Celestine v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
187
cited by 187 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
10
states following
April 2024
most recently cited
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Bible (1993), Bonin v. Calderon (1995)
46 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Gregg v. Georgia
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.