State v. Blakley’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2001
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Krull v. THERMOGAS CO. OF NORTHWOOD IA. · State v. Kluesner · Downing v. Iowa Department of Transportation · Meier v. Sac and Fox Indian Tribe · In Re Property Seized From Sopoci
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To decide whether [a] statutory provision is mandatory or directory, we look to the purpose the legislature intended it to serve. If the duty imposed by the provision is essential to the main objective of the whole statute, the provision is mandatory, and failure to perform the duty will invalidate subsequent proceedings under the statute. But when the duty is not essential to the main statutory objective, the provision is directory, and failure to perform the duty under it will not affect the validity of subsequent proceedings unless prejudice is shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Grimes
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.