Meeks v. Cabana’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 1319 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2014
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Miller v. Fenton · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he state court's finding of waiver [of the right to appeal] involves a pure question of fact”
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.