Albert v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
732 F.2d 865 · 1984
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2007 · most notably United States v. Pedro M. Gonzalez-Sanchez, United States of America v. Carlos Latorre, United States of America v. Manuel Parrilla-Marquez (1987), Delap v. Dugger (1989)
20 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Ashe v. Swenson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“complete happenstance unarranged by police”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“means simply that when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delap v. Dugger“whether there is a reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction.”
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.