Tinley v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2010
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Goodman v. Brock Ex Rel. Estate of Brock · McCauley v. Ray · Citizens Bank v. C & H Construction & Paving Co. · Bolt v. Davis · Miera v. George
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is impossible to state the rule . . . briefly and comprehensively so as to make it clearly applicable to all cases, because of the ever-varying facts of each particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lessard v. Coronado“To define `the course and scope of employment' is variable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lessard v. Coronado
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.