Comer v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2017
10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 515
Relies on United States v. Nixon · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Oyler v. Boles · United States v. Batchelder · Securities & Exchange Commission v. National Securities, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under the federal constitution, overlapping statutes which carry differing penalties do not violate due process so long as each statute gives fair notice of the essential elements of the offense and the penalty for its violation. Furthermore, equal protection under such statutes requires only that the two statutes are not utilized to treat different recognizable classes differently." Id. at 55 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Salone v. State“(1) Whether there was sufficient evidence on the issue of damages to support the jury's award; and (2) Whether the trial court erred in denying the State's second request for judgment on the evidence presented in the State's motion to correct error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the Government may prosecute under either so long as it does not discriminate against any class of defendants.... Whether, to prosecute and what. charge to file or bring ... are decisions that generally rest in the prosecutor's discretion.”
1 later decision 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.