State v. Mecier’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably State v. Bubar (1985), State v. Recor (1988)
60 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. § 753
Relies on In re Oliver · Waller v. Georgia · Gannett Co Inc v. A · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Kahm 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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it must be material and have been discovered since the trial, (2) it must be truly new and not merely undiscovered because of lack of diligence, (3) it must be of such character that it will give reasonable assurance that it will work a different result upon a retrial, and (4) it must not be merely cumulative or only of impeaching effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wetter“so grave and serious that it strikes at the very heart of the [defendant's] constitutional rights,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunt
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.