Tucker v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 133 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1998 · most notably Elkins v. United States (1960), Wolf v. People of the State of Colorado (1949)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 133 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Boyd v. United States · Weeks v. United States · Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States · Amos v. United States · Albert Adams v. People of the State of New York
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What is the difference in principle in forcing a defendant to speak against himself by word of mouth, and in forcing, by an unlawful search, the secret things of his home to give evidence against him? We see none. His home is as sacred from illegal force as his person.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cofer v. State““No warrant shall be issued without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, specially designating the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. State
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.