Joseph Code v. Charles M. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
799 F.2d 1481 · 1986
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 876 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Rice (1992), United States v. Gray (1989)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Strickland v. Washington · Nix v. Whiteside · In re Martin-Trigona · Washington v. Strickland · Rovetuso 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the case against [the petitioner] could have withstood the introduction of the alibi testimony readily discoverable at the time of trial and subsequently proffered in habeas corpus proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“without determining whether the one witness he contacted could provide an alibi”
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.