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← 2004 MT 257 - Basto v. State

Basto v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
August 2024
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kills on Top v. State · State v. Wright · State v. McLeod · State v. Sattler · State v. Root

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

  1. “When a petitioner has been afforded the opportunity for a direct appeal of the petitioner's conviction, grounds for relief that were or could reasonably have been raised on direct appeal may not be raised, considered, or decided in a proceeding brought under this chapter.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “We have consistently applied this statutory bar in order to prevent the abuse of post-conviction relief by criminal defendants who would substitute those proceedings for direct appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.