Meagher v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 1242 · 1988
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2001
11 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Wainwright v. Sykes · Town of Mashpee v. Mashpee Tribe · Schilb v. Kuebel · 464 So. 2d 1171 - Scott v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]one of the time spent on parole shall be credited. The unexpired portion of [Meagher's] federal sentence shall commence upon [his] release from state custody....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Meagher v. Clark
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.