Meadows v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Wiley v. Sowders (1981), Gall v. Commonwealth (1980)
4 federal appellate · 30 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 Boykin v. Alabama · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Jewell v. Commonwealth · Bowman v. Commonwealth · Gehrke v. State
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The action of trial counsel in this particular instance may have amounted to a tactical retreat but certainly it did not surrender the cause.” Id., at 512 . Here, however, the admissions of Wiley’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wiley v. Sowders
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.