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Montgomery v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

1,267
cited by 1,267 later decisions
4
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

1,265 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,267 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Guzman v. State (1997), Santellan v. State (1997)

1,265 state decisions

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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 Carstea v. Poplar Tree Homeowners Ass'n · United States v. Monton · United States v. Beechum · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · Mabry v. Johnson

Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Kotteakos v. United States · Crawford v. Washington

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 1,267 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “within the zone of reasonable disagreement.”
    32 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Rabb v. State · Creekmore v. State
  2. “evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith.”
    24 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Moore v. State · Webb v. State
  3. “Although relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”
    21 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Robinson v. State · Rankin 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.