Tomlinson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably State v. Stallings (2007), State v. Webb (1988)
50 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 Ball v. United States · Bettini v. City of Las Cruces · 24 Md. App. 309 - Wright v. State · State Ex Rel. Miera v. Chavez · People v. Emig
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Shall' will be given its mandatory meaning, unless there are indications in the statute that the mandatory reading is repugnant to the manifest intent of the Legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jacob F.“`[T]here is no substitute for the impact on sentencing which a defendant's own words might have if he chooses to make a statement.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ricky G.
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.