Tomlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 1981
20 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
Relies on 11 Smith & H. 530 - Woodruff v. State · Kirkendoll v. State · Stanley v. State · Turner v. State · Stallard 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may have been to the interest of each [defendant] that he be tried alone, but the orders of the court are molded to protect rights, and not merely the interests, of persons accused of crime. The state, as well as the persons accused, is entitled to have its rights protected, and when several persons are charged jointly with a single crime, we think the state is entitled to have the fact of guilt determined and punishment assessed in a single trial, unless to do so would unfairly prejudice the rights of the defendants.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Coleman · Dorsey v. State““The purpose of the statute was to require the judge to give written instructions upon all the legal questions arising in the case, but not to prevent that necessary and indispensable intercourse between judge and jury in the progress of the trial being had verbally which relates-tb'their conduct or action in other particulars than in regard to the rules of law by which they should be governed in-rendering their verdict. “All that relates to the principles of law by which they shall be governed in arriving at and rendering their verdict — the instructions of the court to the jury • — should be in writing. All other proper communications by the court to them may be verbally made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gamble v. State““The test of whether one charged with a joint crime is entitled to a severance is whether he would be unfairly prejudiced in his defense by being put to a joint trial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.