Meek v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1858
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company v. Apms et al. (1875), Croft v. Alder (1959)
2 federal appellate · 39 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 Sheffield v. Lovering
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he law, upon grounds of great public policy, utility, or necessity, presumes the existence of undue influence from the known confidential relations of ... client and attorney ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the court does not watch these transactions with a jealousy almost invincible, in a great majority of cases, it will lend its assistance to fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estate of McRae“policy of the law, founded on the safety and convenience of mankind ... preventing acts of bounty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Estate of McRae
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.