Montague v. Vinzant’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 657 · 1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2003
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Vance v. Bradley · 78 Wash. 2d 9 - State v. Zornes · Sweet v. Cupp · Carothers 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Limiting the retroactive effect of the law to pending cases provides an obvious saving of judicial and law enforcement resources. This was the rule at common law . . . and the legislature had a rational basis for adopting it here.”
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.