Meyer v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
621 F.2d 769 · 1980
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Corn v. Zant (1983)
27 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
Relies on United States v. Wade · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the opportunity of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness' prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the trial and the confrontation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we do not sit as a 'super' state supreme court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Billiot v. Maggio
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.