Meeks v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably Lawrence v. State (1972), Woods v. State (1968)
84 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 People v. . Molineux · Bracey v. United States · Lovely v. United States · Watts v. State · Kallas 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘. . . The reason for the difference in the rule applicable is obvious. Other attempts to ravish have a tendency to show that an assault under investigation was made with like intent. Acts showing a perverted sexual instinct are circumstances which with other circumstances may have a tendency to connect an accused with a crime of that character. The fact that one woman was raped, however, has no tendency to prove that another woman did not consent.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State · Jenkins v. State“"Proof by the state of other crimes than the one for which the defendant is on trial is generally not admissible. Such evidence is admissible only where the crime charged has been established and the motive, malice intent or guilty knowledge of the defendant is an issue. Evidence of other crimes than the one charged is also admissible where the evidence discloses a common scheme or plan."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““An individual on trial for a sexual offense should be afforded the same evi-dentiary safeguards against irrelevant prejudicial testimony as an individual on trial for another felony.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jenkins v. State · Malone 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.