State v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably 569 So. 2d 439 - State v. Dist. Ct. of Appeal, First Dist. (1990), 685 So. 2d 773 - Amend. to Fla. Rules of Appellate Proc. (1996)
71 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 Anders v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Douglas v. People of State of California · Polk County v. Dodson
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A collateral attack raising the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel is open to the indigent and the non-indigent on the same terms. The ends of justice will be better served when all who seek justice may seek it by the same paths.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he undisputed facts before us reveal, as a matter of law, the ineffective assistance of appellate counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]ll attorneys, whether state-supplied or privately retained, are under the professional duty not to neglect any legal matters entrusted to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.