Thacker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 161 W. Va. 517 - State v. Starkey (1978), 68 Ill. 2d 198 - People v. Trinkle (1977)
39 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 Maher v. People · Roberts v. People · Lacefield v. State · Hicks v. Commonwealth · Kinnebrew 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law can presume the intention so far as realized in the act, but not an intention beyond what was so realized. The law does not presume, because an assault was made with a weapon likely to produce death, that it was an assault with the intent to murder. * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fuller v. State · Ponos v. State“commit arson only and not an attempt to murder.”
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.