Meek v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably State v. ENSLEY (1960), Liddick v. City of Council Bluffs (1942)
5 federal appellate · 24 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 Renihan v. Wright · Bogert v. City of Indianapolis · Orr v. Dayton & Muncie Traction Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the widow had any interest in the dead body of her husband which might be considered a property right, it was her right to have the body remain undisturbed in its grave, and a removal of the body would injure and interfere with this property right * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ravellette v. Smith“Generally, the word property in its legal sense means a valuable right or interest in a thing rather than the thing itself.”
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.