I've found what appears to be my solution. Backtick does not seem to behave the same as tick. line() for `< and `> report 0, but '< and '> report the line numbers of the visual selection. I thought maybe it might be due to blockwise VS linewise, but in my tests it didn't seem to make a difference.
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