Tomlin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
January 1987
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. State · Washington v. State · Gardner v. State · Reed v. State · Isbell 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If it be shown on the trial of any felony offense that the defendant has previously been finally convicted of two felony offenses, and the second previous felony conviction is for an offense that occurred subsequent to the first previous conviction having become final, on conviction he shall be punished by confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for life.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tomlin v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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