Altmayer v. Sanford’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 161 · 1945
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 1976 · most notably 185 Cal. App. 2d 59 - People v. Miller (1960), James Wm. Smith v. Robert S. McNamara U. S. Secretary of Defense, Gilbert Esco Angle v. Robert S. McNamara U. S. Secretary of Defense (1968)
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 10 U.S.C. § 1564
Relies on Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Wall · Carter v. McClaughry · Dynes v. Hoover · Kahn v. Anderson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No showing is made that appellant was not permitted to consult with his counsel sufficiently to prepare his defense, and reasonable restrictions may be imposed as to the time and place of consultation between an accused and his attorney without infringing constitutional rights.” Altmayer v. Sanford, 5 Cir., 1945, 148 F.2d 161 , 162.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a commissioned officer admitted to practice before courts-martial was a competent attorney, within the purview of the sixth amendment, even in the adversary and trial aspects of the military proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Angle v. Laird
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.