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Blackwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1918

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
4
cited 4 times by the Supreme Court
9
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Caldwell v. Mississippi (1985), Dugger v. Adams (1989)

9 federal appellate · 35 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 Wallace v. State · Newton v. State · Shattuck v. Myers · Rice v. State · Mershon 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]s the court below decided that question in the affirmative, and as a jury was obtained, each member of which swore that he was unprejudiced, and as the case will have to be reversed on other grounds, we are not inclined to disturb the court's conclusion upon that point,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 197 So. 2d 574 - Collins v. State
  2. “"The record in this case bristles with statements and proceedings prejudicial to the defendants, which in the aggregate amounted to a denial of such a fair and impartial trial as every person is entitled to under the Constitution."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Reddick v. State
  3. “If there is any error committed in this case, the Supreme Court, over in the capital of our state, is there to correct it, if any error should be done.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 112 So. 2d 380 - Pait 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.