State v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2019 · most notably State v. Greco (1990), State v. Barber (1988)
1 federal appellate · 28 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 Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Whalen v. United States · Albernaz v. United States · Ohio v. Johnson
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither reason nor authority [supports the rule] that one who commits murder during the perpetration of a felony named [in the felony-murder statute] cannot or should not be convicted and punished for both the offense of murder ... and for the named felony. Nothing in the statutory definitions of [felony] murder ... and of the felonies listed in [the felony-murder statute] indicates a legislative intent that conviction and punishment for both offenses should not be permitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Todd v. State“[T]he legislature intended that multiple punishments be imposed on conviction of a defendant for felony murder and for the underlying felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
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.