United States v. Blankenship’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 673 · 1995
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Harper (2006), United States of America v. Michal Jankowski (1999)
26 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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. § 3161 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 3162 (§ 101 of the Speedy Trial Act of 1974) · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act)
Relies on Henderson v. United States · Weissbrodt v. White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · Hebert v. Brown · Department of Revenue of Montana v. Ranch
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) he was under an unlawful and present, imminent, and impending threat of such a nature as to induce a well-grounded apprehension of death or serious bodily injury; (2) that he had not recklessly or negligently placed himself in a situation in which it was probable that he would be forced to commit a criminal act; (3) that he had no reasonable, legal alternative to violating the law; and (4) that a direct causal relationship may be reasonably anticipated between the commission of the criminal act and the avoidance of the threatened harm.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a defendant is not brought to trial within the time limit required by section [3161(e) ] as extended by [the excluded delays of] section 3161(h), the information or indictment shall be dismissed on motion of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]ne who has full opportunity to avoid the act without danger of [death or serious bodily injury].”
2 later decisions 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.