Montgomery v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
956 F.2d 677 · 1992
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Rodriguez v. Peters (1995), United States v. Parker (1995)
29 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Payton v. New York · Neil v. Biggers · Manson v. Brathwaite · Arizona v. Youngblood
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heck v. Richards · Jackson v. Clark“The constitutionality of an identification procedure is a mixed question of law and fact that is not governed by the statutory presumption of section 2254(d).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Peters“[f]actual issues that have been decided by the state trial or appellate courts are presumptively correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Peters
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.