Perry v. Meek’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Vinci v. American Can Co. (1984), Harvell v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (2007)
26 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Eisen v. Carlisle & Jacquelin · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · 67 Cal. 2d 695 - Daar v. Yellow Cab Co. · Blackie v. Barrack
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may be altered or amended before the decision on the merits.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“The pragmatically correct action, in the face of a close question as to certification, has been said to sustain certification because if it develops later during the course of the trial that the order is ill-advised, the order is always (prior to judgment on the merits,) subject to modification.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The absence of argument and authorities on a point of error preserved by a petition in error is deemed abandonment of that point.”
2 later decisions 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.