Meeks v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
963 F.2d 316 · 1992
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Bolender v. Singletary (1994)
17 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier · McCleskey v. Zant
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well established that a habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing on a claim if he or she alleges facts that, if proved at the hearing, would entitle petitioner to relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he mere occurrence of a full and fair hearing in the state court ... does not neutralize petitioner's right to an evidentiary hearing in federal court,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“discern exactly which claims the Florida Supreme Court identified as procedurally defaulted [and][w]ith respect to these claims ... consider whether [Meeks] can demonstrate either cause and prejudice for his default, or a fundamental miscarriage of justice [under Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722 , 750, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 2565, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991) ],”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meeks v. Moore
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.