State v. Montague’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably United States v. Wright (1973), State v. Mulvihill (1970)
3 federal appellate · 47 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 18 U.S.C. § 3500
Relies on Schmerber v. State of California · Hickman v. Taylor · Dennis v. United States · Blasius v. United States · 70 Cal. 2d 347 - People v. Curtis
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a right so to defend as to deny the State a chance to check the truth of his position.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“significantly geared towards broader mutual discovery within constitutional limits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the internal office materials which embody the attorney's private thoughts and impressions, as distinguished from the statements of witnesses, would be nonevidential and protected by the [work product] privilege”
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.