State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Northern Security Insurance v. Perron (2001), State v. Searles (1993)
44 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · State v. Ramsay · State v. Cameron · State v. Morrill · State v. Bourn
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) The other person is under the age of 16, except where the persons are married to each other and the sexual act is consensual[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hazelton · State v. Deyo“[C]onsent by a minor is not legally possible.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The legislature, among others, would certainly be surprised to find that sexual assault on a minor does not involve force or aggression and is consensual, even though consent by a minor is not legally possible.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hazelton · State v. Deyo
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.