Montgomery v. Meloy’s Empirical Analysis
90 F.3d 1200 · 1996
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Sellers v. Ward (1998), Mason v. Hanks (1996)
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Doyle v. Ohio · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · McCleskey v. Zant · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Cities of Charlottesville v. Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ujnless state collateral review violates some independent constitutional right, such as the Equal Protection Clause” (citing Lane v. Brown, 372 U.S. 477 , 484-85, 83 S.Ct. 768 , 9 L.Ed.2d 892 (1963))), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 907 , 117 S.Ct. 266 , 136 L.Ed.2d 190 (1996); Dickerson v. Walsh, 750 F.2d 150 , 150-53 (1st Cir.1984) (adjudicating capital defendant's Equal Protection claim because”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Word v. Lord · Corchado v. Rabideau“delay in receiving a ruling on a discretionary state collateral appeal is not a ground for federal habeas corpus relief”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]his argument completely misses the mark.... There is no logical causal connection between [Jones's] attorneys' failure to raise these arguments on direct appeal and [Jones's] failure to raise them in his first petition where he was proceeding pro se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jones v. Hanks
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.