State v. Tomassi’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2012 · most notably Rogers v. Richmond (1961), State v. Rodriguez (1980)
2 district · 69 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 State v. Guilfoyle · State v. McDonough · State v. Kemp · State v. Willis · Kinderavich v. Palmer
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * by ‘the great weight of better reasoned authority’ such a statement made to the accused does not render his confession inadmissible”, citing numerous cases, and continuing viz.: “* * * ‘As has been well said, such advice “cannot possibly vitiate the confession, since by hypothesis the worst that it can evoke is the truth, and there is thus no risk of accepting a false confession.” ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barksdale 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.