Leitheiser v. Montana State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Dumont v. Wickens Bros. Construction Co. (1979), Zell v. Zell (1977)
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.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Robinson · State ex rel. Sinko v. District Court · State Ex Rel. Reid v. District Court of Second Judicial District · State Ex Rel. Rankin v. Wibaux County Bank · State Ex Rel. King v. District Court
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Hearing on the motion shall be had within 10 days after it has been served * * * except that at any time after the notice of hearing on the motion has been served the court may issue an order continuing the hearing for not to exceed 30 days ® * *. “If the motion is not noticed up for hearings and no hearing is held thereon, it shall be deemed denied as of the expiration of the period of time within which hearing is required to be held under this Rule 59.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . an appeal shall be taken by filing a notice of appeal in the district court. Failure of an appeal to take any step other than the timely filing of a notice of appeal does not affect the validity of the appeal, but is ground only for such action as the supreme court deems appropriate, which may include dismissal of the appeal.””
1 later decision 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.