Blackman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2014
11 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 472 So. 2d 398 - Tobias v. State · 603 So. 2d 349 - Broome v. Mississippi Bar · 627 So. 2d 326 - Stringer v. State · 608 So. 2d 692 - McCollum v. Franklin · Hopkins 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary by now, that the use of prior convictions for impeachment is governed by Rule 609 of the Mississippi Rules of Evidence. That rule restricts the use of convictions to those for which the penalty is death or imprisonment for one year or more or those involving "dishonesty or false statement." M.R.E. 609(a). The Comment explains that "the phrase `dishonesty or false statement' in 609(a)(2) means crimes such as perjury, false statement, fraud, embezzlement, false pretense, or any other offense in the nature of crimen falsi...." Comment, M.R.E. 609. While there is a split of authority on the question whether theft crimes such as larceny and shoplifting should be categorized as crimen falsi, historically they have not been and this Court has adopted the majority view they are not. (citations omitted).”
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.