State v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2025
24 state decisions
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 Barker v. Wingo · Doggett v. United States · City of Billings v. Bruce · State v. Thompson · State v. Highpine
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Rjegardless of the fact that I am in fact Mr. Blair’s third attorney and that he had two before, he is in no way responsible for that. He’s not accountable for that, and certainly is entitled, regardless of personnel changes in the Yellowstone County Public Defender’s Office, to a timely and effective representation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rose“[A] defendant is under no obligation to ensure diligent prosecution of the case against him or to help the State avoid dismissal for failure to timely prosecute him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ariegwe“the fact of 342 days of pretrial incarceration suffices to establish this element in this case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ariegwe
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.