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← 929 SW2D 595 - Melendez v. State

Melendez v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1999
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · Doggett v. United States · Keene Corp. v. United States · In re Disbarment of Hurley

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to gain some tactical advantage over [defendants] or to harass them”
    1 later decision 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.