Meier v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association v. D Cuesta · Jones v. Rath Packing Co. · Maryland v. Louisiana
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When reviewing the propriety of an instruction, we must consider the instructions as a whole and determine whether they properly instructed the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Instructions should include only correct statements of law by which the evidence is to be examined and applied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“record shows that a jury might have answered differently if a proper instruction had been given.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.