Thornton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 1968
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Green v. State · Bynum v. State · Williams v. State · Patrick v. State · Spanish 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The third question challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. As stated, supra, there was no motion for new trial and, therefore, the question is not so presented that this Court must consider it but, in fairness to the plaintiff in error, we have considered the evidence and found it amply sufficient to sustain the verdict and judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hogwood v. State
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.