Blocker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2013 · most notably Tibbs v. Florida (1982), Commonwealth v. Musto (1943)
27 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 Davis v. State · People v. . Wood · People v. . Taylor · State v. Newcomb · People v. . Furlong
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is in this State no limit to the number of new trials that may be granted in any case, . . . it takes a strong case to require an appellate court to grant a new trial in a case upon the ground of insufficiency of conflicting evidence to support a verdict when the finding has been made by two juries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tibbs v. Florida
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.