Dearborne v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably William H. Mansell v. Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC (2013), Traughber v. Beauchane (1985)
2 federal appellate · 34 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 United States v. Cox · 247 Pa. Super. 99 - Commonwealth v. Kindness · Daugherty v. State · Pace v. State · Whitwell v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The district attorney general] is answerable to no superior and has virtually unbridled discretion in determining whether to prosecute and for what offense. No comí may interfere with [his or her] discretion to prosecute, and in the formulation of this decision he or she is answerable to no one. In a very real sense this is the most powerful office in Tennessee today. Its responsibilities are awesome; the potential for abuse is frightening.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We decide cases and controversies on the basis of the record as presented to us for our consideration, and not as they might, or should have been presented.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[P]re-trial diversion is not a mere extension of the charging process. The statutory scheme may not be invoked until after indictment. The plan of diversion, or the denial thereof, follows indictment and comes after the prosecutor has fully discharged all discretionary functions and after the prosecutorial die has been cast. “It is judicial in character in that it involves a procedural alternative to prosecution and a disposition by normal methods.” Dearborne v. State (Tenn. 1978), 575 S.W. 2d 259, 263-264 .”
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.