Meyer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2003 · most notably Parker v. State (1979), Russell v. State (1977)
34 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 Morris v. State · Hamilton v. State · Bailey v. State · Smith v. State · Robertson 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.
““ ‘The best evidence rule deals with writings alone, not with objects, and the fact that exhibition of such objects to the jury would more clearly and forcefully explain their nature, appearance or condition, is not a valid objection to oral evidence concerning such matters.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Washington 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.