Blackwell v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Straight v. State (1981), Amos v. Gunn (1922)
78 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 Pollock v. Farmers' Loan Traust Co · Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · Carlton v. People · Denney v. State ex rel. Basler · Adams 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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right * * to meet the witnesses against him face to face * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.