Bludsworth v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Howard v. State (1997), Spence v. State (1990)
2 district · 39 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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 Blockburger v. United States · United States v. National Dairy Products Corp. · People v. Henson · Litteral v. State · 93 Mich. App. 590 - People v. Barnard
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Admissibility of the bite mark and other bruise evidence does not depend on connecting either defendant to the infliction of the injury. It is independent, relevant circumstantial evidence tending to show that the child was intentionally, rather than accidentally, injured on the day in question.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Woof that a child has experienced injuries in many purported accidents is evidence that the most recent injury may not have resulted from yet another accident.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering as a result of abuse or neglect.”
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.