State v. Tobin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2022
24 state decisions — followed in 10 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 Morissette v. United States · Dennis v. United States · Colautti v. Franklin · Gibson v. United States · People v. Kelley
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n cases involving sexual assault, this court [has] expanded [the] list of exceptions [to the general prohibition against admission of uncharged misconduct] to allow evidence of prior acts to show the defendant's `lewd disposition or . . . intent'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Myers v. State · State v. DeJesus“sexual arousal, gratification, or assault.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Definition of guilt of second degree sexual assault. — A person is guilty of a second degree sexual assault if he or she engages in sexual contact with another person and if any of the following circumstances exist: ****** (B) The accused uses force or coercion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown
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.