Meeks v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Griffin v. Shively (1984), Artrip v. E.E. Berry Equipment Co. (1990)
6 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 Riley v. Harris · Semones v. Johnson · Martin v. Penn · Voight v. Reber · Clifton v. Gregory
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must view the evidence, and all reasonable inferences drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, and resolve any reasonable doubt to its sufficiency in his favor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.