State v. Tinkham’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2010
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · New Jersey v. T. L. O. · State v. Ball · Commonwealth v. Snyder · State v. Bruneau
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[although school principals are "responsible for administration and discipline within the school," and "must regularly conduct inquiries concerning both violations of school rules and violations of law," they are not law enforcement agents. They are "neither trained nor equipped to conduct police investigations," and, unlike law enforcement agents, enforcing the law is not their primary mission. "Law enforcement officers are responsible for the investigation of criminal matters and maintenance of general public order," while school officials, in comparison, "are charged with fostering a safe and healthy educational environment that facilitates learning and promotes responsible citizenship."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“must regularly conduct inquiries concerning both violations of school rules and violations of law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“responsible for administration and discipline within the school,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.