Toomer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably Wilhelm v. State (1974), Hunt v. State (1990)
67 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 Dunlop v. United States · Mitchell v. State · Lanasa v. State · Biscoe v. State · Esterline 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is unquestionably wrong for the State’s Attorney in his argument to the jury to refer to any matter not testified to by the witnesses or disclosed by the evidence in the case, and it is his duty to confine his remarks to the facts in the case, [he did not add] but if every remark made by counsel in the heat of argument, not strictly applicable to the evidence offered, is to be held sufficient ground for reversing a judgment, few convictions would stand.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is the common and approved practice in this State to insert in the indictment several counts, charging the offense in different ways, and to charge -in one indictment, in separate counts, two or more felonies growing out of the same transaction,””
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.