Morton v. Welch’s Empirical Analysis
162 F.2d 840 · 1947
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably United States ex rel. Darcy v. Handy (1953), Root v. Cunningham (1965)
23 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Diggs v. Welch · Morton v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Bonham v. Ragen · Morgan v. Sun Oil Co.
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.
““Nor is there any substance in the point now made that the appellant’s trial counsel in the criminal case was inefficient in presenting the defense. The attorney was of the defendant’s own selection and there is no charge made that he was not ordinarily competent or lacked good faith in the particular case. It is not permissible, in a habeas corpus case, to attack the validity of the judgment in a criminal case, merely on the ground that the defendant was inadequately represented by his own deliberately selected counsel. * * * ””
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.