Tomlin v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
117 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez (2000), Schmidt v. Household Finance Corp., II (2008)
117 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 James v. Jane · Messina v. Burden · Elder v. Holland · Glascock v. Laserna · WEICHERT COMPANY OF VIRGINIA, INC. v. First Commercial Bank
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reduc[e litigation] to a distinct issue of fact which, if proven, creates a bar to the plaintiff's right of recovery.”
4 later decisions 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.