People v. Bladel’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions (10 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably McNeil v. Wisconsin (1991), Michigan v. Jackson (1986)
15 federal appellate · 18 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.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[t]he simple fact that defendant has requested an attorney indicates that he does not believe that he is sufficiently capable of dealing with his adversaries singlehandedly.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“requested counsel during their arraignments, but were not afforded an opportunity to consult with counsel before the police initiated further interrogations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michigan v. Jackson“defendants' request to the arraigning magistrate for appointment of counsel implicated only their Sixth Amendment right to counsel,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Michigan v. Jackson
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.