Tinsley v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
June 2008
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc. · Brown v. United States · Johnson v. Fourth Court of Appeals · TransAmerican Natural Gas Corp. v. Powell · State v. Walker
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where less severe sanctions are possible, and would tend to promote compliance with the orderly trial of lawsuits, trial courts should apply the less severe sanctions.”
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.