Blinken v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Wright v. State (1986), 173 W. Va. 658 - Myers v. Frazier (1984)
27 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 State v. Brockman · Miller v. State · Kisamore v. State · 46 Md. App. 579 - Blinken v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the judge accepts the plea agreement, he shall accept the defendant’s plea in open court and embody in his judgment the agreed sentence, disposition or other judicial action encompassed in the agreement, or, with the consent of the parties, a disposition more favorable to the defendant than that provided for in the agreement.”
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.