Black v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1997
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Whitmore v. State · Hardin v. Estelle · Peoples v. State · Mitchell 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All persons who have been or may be convicted in this State, and who are confined in an institution ... shall be permitted to testify in person in any court for the State and the defendant when the presiding judge finds, after hearing, that the ends of justice require their attendance, and directs that an attachment issue to accomplish this purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. State
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.