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Blain v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
1
states following
February 2017
most recently cited

58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Brown v. State (1986), Tisdale v. State (1985)

58 state decisions

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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 Denham v. State · Williams v. State · Davidson v. State · Alvarez 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he state can, without expert testimony, prove a particular knife to be a deadly weapon by showing its size, shape and sharpness, the manner of its use, or intended use and its capacity to produce death or serious bodily injury. In determining the deadliness of a weapon the jury may consider all of the facts of a case, including words spoken by the accused.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Witt v. State · Zimmerman v. State
  2. ““A knife is not a deadly weapon per se. [Citation omitted.] The State can, without expert testimony, prove a particular knife to be a deadly weapon by showing its size, shape, sharpness, the manner of its use or intended use and its capacity to produce death or serious bodily injury. [Citations omitted.] In determining the deadliness of a weapon the jury may consider all of the facts of a case, including words spoken by the accused. [Citation omitted].” 4”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Tisdale 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.