Myers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably Deck v. Missouri (2005), Lott v. State (2004)
1 federal appellate · 22 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
Relies on Ayala-Mendez v. United States · State v. Roscoe · State v. Davidson · State v. Frazier · Turnbow v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“substantial minority of states grants some form of latitude for evidence of other crimes in sexual offense cases. Of these, the majority focus on sex crimes against children. Several states allow this evidence in any sexual offense case to explain motive and intent by showing previous propensity for sexual offenses, or on the general principle that such offenses should have liberal standards of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. James v. State
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.