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← 197 Mont. 131 - State v. Blakney

State v. Blakney’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

46 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Shea v. Louisiana (1985), State v. Okland (1997)

46 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

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Edwards v. Arizona

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

  1. “Other appropriate considerations include the age, education, and intelligence of the accused, and his capacity to understand the warnings given him, the nature of his Fifth Amendment rights, and the consequences of waiving those rights.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Main · Matter of JWK
  2. “a valid waiver must include not merely a comprehension of the benefits being abandoned, but also an actual relinquishment of those benefits, as evidenced by the actions or statements of the accused.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Main
  3. “existence of a valid waiver `must depend, in each case, upon the particular facts and circumstances surrounding that case, including the background, experience, and conduct of the accused.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Main

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.