Smith v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 1194 · 1980
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2025
1 federal appellate ·
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Ballew v. Georgia · Burch v. State of Louisiana · 359 So. 2d 965 - State v. Nicholas · Layton v. Carson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In fact, petitioner was forced to choose between what were to become two unconstitutional choices: a five-member jury, held unconstitutional in Ballew, or a six-member jury where the concurrence of five members could support a conviction, also held unconstitutional in Burch v. Louisiana ...” Smith, at page 1195.”
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.