United States v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
810 F.2d 1242 · 1987
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 9 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably United States v. Sammons (1990), United States v. Patrick (1992)
36 federal appellate · 9 district · 23 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Rideout v. United States · Blackledge v. Perry · United States v. Goodwin
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[p]rosecutorial vindictiveness' is a term of art with a precise and limited meaning. The term refers to a situation in which the government acts against a defendant in response to the defendant's prior exercise of constitutional or statutory rights.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he lesson of Goodwin is that proof of a prosecutorial decision to increase charges after a defendant has exercised a legal right does not alone give rise to a presumption in the pretrial context”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A presumption of vindictiveness arises when a defendant can prove that `all of the circumstances, when taken together, support a realistic likelihood of vindictiveness.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Roy · State v. Korum
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.