State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1967
20 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 State v. Nash · State v. Duffy · State v. Freddy
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities discountenance continuances on the ground of the absence of witnesses who are not within the process of the court. In such cases an affirmative showing should be made strong enough to convince the court that the evidence is material and admissible; that due diligence has been exercised ; and ,thát the absent witnesses can and will be produced at the future time.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor
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.