349 F. Supp. 78 - Tonkin v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2009
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3771 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on 58 Cal. 2d 645 - People v. Sidener · 13 Ill. 2d 84 - The PEOPLE v. Miller · Rapp v. Van Dusen · Dixon v. District of Columbia · District of Columbia v. Buckley
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for seditious language, Lord Holt was visited by Lacy, one of their friends, who informed a servant that he carried a message”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Thou art a false prophet, and a lying knave. If the Lord God had sent thee it would have been to the Attorney-General, for He knows that it belongeth not to the Chief Justice to grant a nolle prosequi; but I, as Chief Justice, can grant a warrant to commit thee to bear him company.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is the Attorney General who must determine whether, where and how to prosecute.”
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.