Thornton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · United States v. Leon · Stovall v. Denno · Brown v. Illinois
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fragmented Court decides a case and no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the assent of five Justices, the holding of the Court may be viewed as that position taken by those Members who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Martinez 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.