Meeker v. Kercher’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 153 · 1986
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 13 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Osei-Afriyie v. Medical College of Pennsylvania (1991), Jie Lin v. Ashcroft (2004)
34 federal appellate · 13 district · 17 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1654 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Polk County v. Dodson · Bonds v. Joplin's Heirs · 541 F. Supp. 500 - Clay v. Friedman
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] minor child cannot bring suit through a parent acting as next friend if the parent is not represented by an attorney.”), and Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 499 , 95 S.Ct. 2197 , 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975) (”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harvey v. Star · Bravo v. Aker“It is the requirement that the guardian ad litem must exercise independent, professional judgment that is crucial to the determination of whether a guardian ad litem acts under color of state law and is therefore a person liable under § 1983. We hold that a guardian ad litem is not acting under color state law for purposes of § 1983.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.