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← 401 U.S. 395 - Tate v. Short

Tate v. Short’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

1,648
cited by 1,648 later decisions
48
cited 48 times by the Supreme Court
49
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

360 federal appellate · 39 district · 958 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 1,648 later decisions (48 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Bell v. Wolfish (1979), San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973)

360 federal appellate · 39 district · 958 state decisions — followed in 49 states

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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 Williams v. Illinois · Morris v. Schoonfield · Shaffer v. Valtierra · Ex Parte Tate

Cited together with Williams v. Illinois · Bearden v. Georgia · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Morris v. Schoonfield · Douglas v. People of State of California

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 1,648 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he Constitution prohibits the State from imposing a fine as a sentence and then automatically converting it into a jail term solely because the defendant is indigent and cannot forthwith pay the fine in full.”
    62 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Cavanaugh v. District of Columbia · Burton v. Goodlett
  2. “traffic irresponsibility and the frightful carnage it spews upon our highways”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
    e.g. 56 Wis. 2d 286 - State Ex Rel. Pedersen v. Blessinger · 1993 Conn. Super. Ct. 8 - Savapolos v. Department of Motor Vehicles, No. 0060019 (Jan. 5, 1993)
  3. “to satisfy the fines at the rate of five dollars for each day.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Fowler v. Benson · Thomas v. Haslam

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.