Tinker v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
417 F.2d 542 · 1969
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently November 1995 · most notably United States v. Tarantino (1988), United States v. Diecidue (1979)
38 federal appellate · 11 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 Interstate Circuit, Inc. v. City of Dallas · Ewing v. United States · Villaroman v. United States · United States v. Nuccio · Ewing v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'an enormous proclivity for humiliation and degradation of a participant in a fashion completely unrelated to testimonial honesty'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is always open to a party to undertake a demonstration of the bias or testimonial motivation ... of one who testifies for his adversary. “Such an effort ... may properly solicit ... information of potential value to the trier of fact in the assessment of credibility.” Evidence of homosexuality is no exception____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here the proffered evidentiary items could have legitimately added little to appellant's substantial presentation while their illegitimate propensities loomed large.”
1 later decision 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.