Blackmon v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 164 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2003
8 federal appellate · 2 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Rose v. Lundy · Pate v. Robinson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard for determining whether a person is capable of making a knowing and intelligent waiver of his right to counsel is not coextensive with the test for determining competency to proceed to trial.”
3 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.