United States v. Meriwether’s Empirical Analysis
486 F.2d 498 · 1973
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably 741 So. 2d 894 - McGilberry v. State (1999), Williams v. State (1997)
32 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7201
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Douglas v. People of State of California · Blumberg v. United States · Ford v. United States
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The names of witnesses to be called by the defendant could easily aid the government in determining the strategy the defendant plans to use at trial. The government should not be able to obtain a list of adverse witnesses in the case of a defendant unable to pay their fees when it is not able to do so in the cases of defendants able to pay witness fees. When an indigent defendant's case is subjected to pretrial scrutiny by the prosecutor, while the monied defendant is able to proceed without such scrutiny, serious equal protection questions are raised. . . ."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Touchet · Putnal v. State“is to `shield the theory of [a] defense from the prosecutor's scrutiny.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(b) Defendants Unable to Pay. The court shall order at any time that a subpoena be issued for service on a named witness upon an ex parte application of a defendant upon a satisfactory showing that the defendant is financially unable to pay the fees of the witness and that the presence of the witness is necessary to an adequate defense. (c) For Production of Documentary Evidence and of Objects. A subpoena may also command the person to whom it is directed to produce the books, papers, documents or other objects designated there in.... The court may direct that books, papers, documents or objects designated in the subpoena be produced before the court at a time prior to the trial .or prior to the time when they are to be offered in evidence and may upon their production permit the books, papers, documents or objects or portions thereof to be inspected by the parties and their attorneys.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.