State v. Tauvar’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2025
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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 O'BRIEN v. United States · State v. Tullo · State v. Thibeault · State v. Gordon · Snead v. Commonwealth
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. A person is guilty of criminal trespass if, knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so: D. He remains in any place in defiance of a lawful order to leave, which was personally communicated to him by the owner or other authorized person,...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“for the purposes of the criminal trespass statute an order to leave property to which the public had been invited is lawful only when the owner has some justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“impermissibly abridges his right to the free exercise of his religion under state and federal guarantees,”
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.