Meltzer v. C. Buck LeCraw & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 7 district · 86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 240 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2015 · most notably Santosky v. Kramer (1982), United States v. Kras (1973)
100 federal appellate · 7 district · 86 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Boddie v. Connecticut · Sprage v. Ticonic Nat Bank
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 240 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(T)he decision in Boddie v. Connecticut can safely rest on only one crucial foundation — that the civil courts of the United States and each of the States belong to the people of this country and that no person can be denied access to those courts, either for a trial or an appeal, because he cannot pay a fee, finance a bond, risk a penalty or afford to hire an attorney.” “(T)he need ... to file for a discharge in bankruptcy seems to me to be more ‘fundamental’ than a person’s right to seek a divorce. Society provides welfare to ensure the survival of the unfortunate. And bankruptcy is designed to permit a man to make a new start unhampered by overwhelming debts in hopes of achieving a useful life.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“by its very nature resembles a criminal prosecution,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Courts ought not be a private preserve for the affluent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.