State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably State v. Kenvin (2011), Vermont v. Brunner (2014)
40 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 Tarrant v. Department of Taxes · State v. Young · In Re Wal Mart Stores, Inc. · State v. Costello · State v. Pickens
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the plain meaning of the words of the statute is insufficient guidance to ascertain legislative intent, we look beyond the language of a particular section standing alone to the whole statute, the subject matter, its effects and consequences, and the reason and spirit of the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When construing a statute, our paramount goal is to effectuate the intent of the Legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“we look first at the plain meaning of statutory language.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.