Blankenship v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 1980 · most notably Aluminum Co. of North America v. Ramsey (1909), Mays v. State (1924)
48 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Evidence was adduced at the trial tending to prove .that the defendant denied having in his possession any of the stolen goods, and that, immediately after this denial, and soon after the larceny was committed, a part of them was found in his possession. Defendant introduced testimony to show that a part of the goods so found had been purchased by him, and that those which had not been purchased were given to him, and that at the time when the offense charged in the indictment was committed he was not at the place where the goods were stolen. Upon this evidence instructions were given to the jury over the objection of the defendant. “The circuit court undertook to say to the jury what weight they might attach to the denial of .the defendant as to the possession of the stolen goods, and the fact that a part of them was found in his possession immediately after the denial was made, and soon after they were stolen, and his failure to explain such possession. It, in effect, instructed them that proof of the stealing of the goods and of these facts was sufficient to convict. This was error. It is within the exclusive province of the jury to determine, under the instructions of the court as to the law of the case, when the evidence is sufficient to convict. The court had no right to point out what inference may or should be drawn from particular facts in proof. Section 23 of article 7 of the Constitution expressly declares that judges shall not charge juries with regard to matters”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.