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← 160 Vt. 451 - State v. Blackmer

State v. Blackmer’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

90
cited by 90 later decisions
3
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

90 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Avgoustov (2006), Simpson v. Owens (2004)

90 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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3142 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)

Relies on United States v. Salerno · United States v. Jessup · State v. Ayala · State v. Duff · Aime v. Commonwealth

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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “in cases where the constitutional right does not apply, the presumption is switched so that the norm is incarceration and not release”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “by affidavits , depositions, sworn oral testimony, or other admissible evidence that it has substantial, admissible evidence as to the elements of the offense.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[a] person charged with an offense punishable by life imprisonment when the evidence of guilt is great may be held without bail.”
    2 later decisions 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.