Metts v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jones v. West · Allison v. United States · Ready v. United States · Johnson v. United States · Peyton 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“case would be in a different posture, and denial of the motion without a hearing might have been appropriate, if the trial judge had given [appellant] a specified brief period to present his allegations and the allegations of his witnesses in affidavit form, and if [appellant] had failed to comply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he trial judge, recognizing that an additional credible proffer from one or more of these prospective witnesses might warrant a 23-110 hearing, granted Mr. Metts a generous amount of time in which to present such evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had produced only one affidavit from his five prospective witnesses, which affidavit did not support his claim, and presented no `other credible evidence' warranting a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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