Meek v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably O'BOYLE v. State (2005), Campbell v. State (2004)
33 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 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Michigan v. Long · United States v. Knuckles · Wilson 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the district court has not made specific findings of fact, we will uphold its general ruling if the ruling is supportable by any reasonable view of the evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gunn v. State · Innis v. State“'adequate and independent state grounds,' ... prevents this court, as a matter of policy, from considering other than the federal constitutional principles at issue. ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fender v. State · Vassar v. State“right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fender v. State · Sutton 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.