Workman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2018 · most notably Miller v. Alabama (2012), Miller v. Alabama (2012)
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 23 states
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 Gault · Kent v. United States · Robinson v. State of California · Weems v. United States · Thorburn Ross v. State of Oregon
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'incorrigibility is inconsistent with youth.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]ape [was] the only offense in this jurisdiction where punishment without benefit of parole [could] be inflicted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“shocks the general conscience of society today and is intolerable to fundamental fairness.”
2 later decisions 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.