Myers v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Taylor v. State (1996), 943 So. 2d 20 - Hannah v. State (2006)
141 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 Conley v. Gibson · Boykin v. Alabama · Haines v. Kerner · Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · Braunfeld v. Gibbons
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it plainly appears from the face of the motion, any annexed exhibits and the prior proceedings in the case that the movant is not entitled to any relief.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a claim procedurally alive substantial[ly] showing denial of a state or federal right. . . .'”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it plainly appears from the face of the motion, any annexed exhibits and the prior proceedings in the case that the movant is not entitled to any relief, the judge may make an order for its dismissal and cause the prisoner to be notified.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Epps v. State · Cole v. State
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.