Meadows v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 385 · 1976
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 1994 · most notably Tower v. Glover (1984), Fulford v. Klein (1976)
55 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wolff v. McDonnell · Preiser v. Rodriguez · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN · Fulford v. Klein
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it perfectly evident that to recover damages for illegal conduct of the state officials, even though this conduct was the cause of adding to the length of the term of the sentence, a section 1983 case could go forward without any requirement of exhaustion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gwin v. Snow“The mere assertion that Meadows seeks damages rather than release is insufficient to distinguish the case from a habeas corpus action....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gwin v. Snow“asks for relief or raises issues which go directly to the constitutionality of his conviction or confinement”
1 later decision 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.