Blackburn v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2022
15 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 Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Chambers v. Maroney · Johnson v. United States
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 existence of an emergency . . . permits the law enforcement officer to substitute his judgment for that of a neutral and detached magistrate to the existence of probable cause to make a search.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is without question that the existence of probable cause alone will not satisfy a warrantless search. Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42 , 90 S.Ct. 1975 , 26 L.Ed.2d 419 (1970); Whitehead v. State, 546 P.2d 273 (Okl.Cr.1976). Ordinarily, if an officer has probable cause to make a search, then he should go to a magistrate for a warrant authorizing such a search. Only when there are ‘exigent circumstances’ in addition to the existence of probable cause may an officer legitimately make a search without a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Castleberry v. State“certain specifically established and well delineated exceptions”
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.