State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 1991
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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“be extended by implication or construction to persons or things not expressly brought within its terms, nor to cases not within the letter of the statute; and also that `all doubts as to the construction are resolved in favor of the defendant,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldsmith v. Cheney
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.