Montoya v. Ulibarri’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably State v. Leyva (2011), Kersey v. Hatch (2010)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 30 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.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a free-standing claim of actual innocence entitled a defendant to habeas corpus relief under [state law], if the petitioner proved ‘by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable juror would have convicted him in light of the new evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Case v. Hatch
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.