United States v. Blevinal’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 1124 · 1979
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2020
15 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371 · 18 U.S.C. § 921 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 923 · 22 U.S.C. § 1934
Relies on Glasser v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Allen v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · United States v. McRae
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“potential for coercion is present in even the most mild supplemental instructions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lowenfield v. Phelps
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.