Meders v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Al-Amin v. State (2004), Hill v. State (1993)
4 federal appellate · 26 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Pate v. Robinson · Ake v. Oklahoma · Isaacs v. State · Hicks 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.
“raised questions about the effectiveness of trial counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“At any time after the case is docketed in the Supreme Court, the Superior Court may be directed by the Supreme Court to conduct further hearings, or to hold additional conferences for specified purposes, or to make additional findings of facts or conclusions of law in respect to issues raised by the parties on appeal or perceived by the Supreme Court although not asserted by the defendant or the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Hammond v. State“We have held that, where the issue of effectiveness is raised for the first time on appeal by an appellate attorney who did not represent the defendant at trial or on motion for new trial and who did not file an amended motion for new trial, a remand for hearing on the issue of effectiveness may be appropriate. Johnson v. State, 259 Ga. 428 (3) ( 383 SE2d 115 ) (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Owens 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.