Thompson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021
1 district · 9 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 Palko v. State of Connecticut · Hurtado v. People of the State of California · Munn v. Illinois · Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · Leeper v. State of Texas
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the information affirmatively disclosed that the two previous convictions upon which the state would rely to show that Thompson was an habitual criminal were not sufficient to support a conviction under the Habitual Criminal statute”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re McVickers · In Re Seeley“Somewhere and sometime there must be an end to litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re McVickers · In Re Seeley“To set this sentence aside we must go back behind the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Seeley
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.