Roger R. Haller v. Allan, L. Robbins, Warden of the Maine State Prison’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.2d 857 · 1969
Citation profile
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably Simer v. Rios (1981), United States v. Innamorati (1993)
49 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 Chapman v. State of California · Townsend v. Sain · Williams v. People of State of New York · Townsend v. Burke · Mempa v. Rhay
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not only is it a gross breach of the appearance of justice when defendant's principal adversary is given private access to the ear of the court, it is a dangerous procedure.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“improper for the prosecutor to convey information or to discuss any matter relating to the merits of the case or sentence with the judge in the absence of counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he firmness of the court's belief [in the prosecutor's position] may well have been due not only to the fact that the prosecutor got in his pitch first, - 151 - but, even more insidiously, to the very relationship . . . that permitted such [ex parte] disclosures.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.