Workman v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Hoskins v. Maricle (2004), People v. Fisher (1983)
31 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 Olmstead v. United States · United States v. Cowan · People v. Reagan · 188 So. 2d 24 - State v. Davis · Butler 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * If the government breaks its word, it breeds contempt for integrity and good faith. It destroys the confidence of citizens in the operation of their government and invites them to disregard their obligations. That way lies anarchy. We deal here with a ‘pledge of public faith-a promise made by state officials-and one that should not be lightly disregarded.’ * * * ””
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cooke v. Orser · Hoskins v. Maricle
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.