Tolbert v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2002 · most notably Barnette v. Evans (1982), Whitaker v. Lockert (In Re Whitaker) (1982)
2 federal appellate · 52 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 Leary v. United States · Mobile Jackson Kansas City Railroad Company v. J a Turnipseed · People v. Vinnola · Starr v. Starr · Goolsby v. State
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That no person shall be imprisoned for debt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"But we agree with the petitioner that if improperly employed to collect a civil debt, such would be an unconstitutional application of such statutes. We further agree that such statutes lend themselves to use by the unscrupulous who seek only payment of debts and have no interest in criminal prosecution other than as a means of collecting money allegedly due them. This court has repeatedly condemned the use of threat of prosecution as a means of collection of worthless checks. [Goolsby v. State , 213 Ala. 351 , 104 So. 901 (1925).] ". . . Further, in upholding the constitutionality of the Worthless Check Act, we should not be misunderstood as sanctioning its use for debt-collecting purposes."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“". . . [I]n upholding the constitutionality of the Worthless Check Act, we should not be misunderstood as sanctioning its use for debt-collecting purposes."”
2 later decisions 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.