State v. Tompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably 433 So. 2d 688 - State v. Smith (1983), 445 So. 2d 1155 - State v. Humphrey (1984)
47 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 State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee · 369 So. 2d 118 - State v. Cox · 389 So. 2d 1263 - State v. Douglas
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith · State v. Shepherd
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.