State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2006
15 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 Thompson v. State of Utah · Dillingham 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district judges shall have authority to try at any time all misdemeanors, and when the jury is waived, all cases not necessarily punishable at hard labor, and to receive pleas of guilty in cases less than capital.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state has an interest in the preservation of the lives and liberties of its citizens, and will not allow them to be taken away without due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.