Blades v. DaFoe’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably People v. Vigil (1986), Carrano v. Yale-New Haven Hospital (2006)
40 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 Swain v. State of Alabama · New York Central Railroad v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners · United States v. Nell · United States v. Marchant · People v. McCrary
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Each side shall be entitled to four peremptory challenges, and if there is more than one party to a side they must join in such challenges. Additional peremptory challenges in such number as the court may see fit may be allowed to parties appearing in the action ... under Rule 14... if the trial court in its discretion determines that the ends of justice so require."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the [party] with the greater number of peremptory challenges clearly has a tactical advantage created by its ability to eliminate potentially unfavorable jurors without cause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o show actual [harm], the complaining litigant would be required to discover the unknowable and to reconstruct what might have been and never was, a jury properly constituted after running the gauntlet of challenge performed in accordance with the prescribed rule[s] of the game.”
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.