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Allen v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis

728 F.2d 1409 · 1984

Citation profile

39
cited by 39 later decisions
4
states following
March 2017
most recently cited

20 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Brazel (1997), William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger (1987)

20 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions

1401984199020002010decided

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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Illinois v. Allen · Sumner v. Mata · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Turner v. Louisiana

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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Courtroom security is a competing interest that may, at times, `outweigh[ ] a defendant's right to stand before the jury untainted by physical reminders of his status as an accused.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 785 So. 2d 422 - Bryant v. State · 837 So. 2d 381 - Israel v. State
  2. “'a brief and fortuitous encounter of the defendant in handcuffs is not prejudicial and requires an affirmative showing of prejudice by the defendant'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. United States v. Williams · Overstreet v. State
  3. “[U]nder some circumstances, shackling `is necessary for the safe, reasonable and orderly progress of trial.'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 785 So. 2d 422 - Bryant v. State · 837 So. 2d 381 - Israel v. State

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.