Blasingame v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
604 F.2d 893 · 1979
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2014 · most notably Solem v. Stumes (1984), Jurek v. Estelle (1980)
25 federal appellate · 6 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brewer v. Williams · Michigan v. Mosley · North Carolina v. Butler · California v. Civil Aeronautics Board
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We construe Priest to bar inquiry as to waiver when, prior to any questioning, the suspect makes an unequivocal request for an attorney's presence, as was done in Priest, and when the request is disregarded and the questioning proceeds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Self v. Collins“whether defendant asserted his right to counsel in such a manner that later police inquiry 'has impinged on the exercise of the suspect's continuing option to cut off the interview.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Watkins“into wholly irrational obstacles to legitimate police investigative activity, and deprive suspects of an opportunity to make informed and intelligent assessments of their interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Watkins
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.