Maynard v. Meachum’s Empirical Analysis
545 F.2d 273 · 1976
Citation profile
102 federal appellate · 11 district · 84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 215 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably State v. Johnson (2006), United States v. Welty (1982)
102 federal appellate · 11 district · 84 state decisions — followed in 23 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Brady v. United States · Illinois v. Allen
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 215 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sense of the magnitude of the undertaking,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the seriousness of the charge and of the penalties he may be exposed to before deciding to take a chance on his own skill.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“between proceeding with counsel already appointed or going pro se”
3 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.