Meyer v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griffin Hospital v. Commission on Hospitals & Health Care · Spierings v. Alaska · Kirby v. Planning Board of Review · Town of Brookfield v. Candlewood Shores Estates, Inc. · McAdams v. Barbieri
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ublic officers, acting in their official capacity, are presumed, until the contrary appears, to have acted legally and properly.”
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.