Melancon v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 179th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lowenfield v. Phelps · Liteky v. United States · Brasfield v. United States · Drye v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where it has been kept together for such time as to render it altogether improbable that it can agree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Rosales 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.