State v. Tomas Jaymitchell Hoyle’s Empirical Analysis
2023
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3481
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our founders did not establish a system of government where judges in our highest courts are unconstrained by the meaning of the law the people have enacted, free to import their own values into the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he only kind of originalism that is reasonably determinate leads to conclusions that practically no one accepts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“'the majority's values against the values that should be protected from society's majorities.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.