Robert H. Mottram v. Frank F. Murch’s Empirical Analysis
458 F.2d 626 · 1972
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014
15 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Griffin v. California · Fay v. Noia · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Grunewald v. United States
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(p)ermitting four jurors to sit on both trials created such a likelihood of prejudice to the petitioner as to deny him due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Donovan v. Davis
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.