Trinkle v. Hand’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2016
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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Eskridge v. Washington State Board of Prison Terms & Paroles · Ritchie v. Johnson · Krouse v. Lowden · General Motors Corp. v. United States
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[U]nder this constitutional mandate the interpretation placed on the Consti tution and laws of the United States by the decisions of the supreme court of the United States is controlling upon state courts and must be followed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray v. State““This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof . . . shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby . . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murray 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.