Blackman v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(3, 4) But however this may be, we are of opinion that the Attorney General has submitted a sufficient answer to this complaint when he calls attention to the rules (1) that objections to the form of indictments are generally waived by going to trial without calling the attention of the trial judge to them, citing Stevenson v. State, 5 Baxt. (64 Tenn.), 681, 683; Palmer v. State, 121 Tenn. 465, 490 , 118 S.W. 1022 , and other cases; and (2) that such defects as are here relied upon will be cured by proof and verdict, citing State v. Green, 129 Tenn. 619 , 167 S.W. 867 ; Mathis v. State, 164 Tenn. 81 , 46 S.W.2d 44 , and as correctly observed, there being no bill of exceptions in the present case, it must be conclusively presumed that the evidence in the case supplied all of the necessary facts.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Tenn. Crim. App. 344 - Sherod v. State · Norris v. State