Johnnie L. Blake v. Robert v. Morford, Superintendent’s Empirical Analysis
563 F.2d 248 · 1977
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably 148 Ill. 2d 116 - People v. Maxwell (1992), Olsen v. McFaul (1988)
13 federal appellate · 4 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 Picard v. Connor · Patterson v. United States · Michael O. Watson v. A. R. Jago, Superintendent · State v. Black · Duchac v. State
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At common law it was not necessary to charge in an indictment for murder that the murder was committed in the perpetration of another crime, in order to introduce proof showing that a felony was attempted in committing it; it was sufficient to charge murder in the common form, and then, upon proof that it was committed in the perpetration of a felony, malice, deliberation, and premeditation were implied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Arnett“Appellant raises a constitutional issue by alleging that he was convicted on a charge not stated in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“did unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, premeditatively, and of malice aforethought kill and murder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.