People v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
September 1990
most recently cited
2 district · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · People v. CALVAREST · People v. Rivera · People v. Tenorio · People v. Bramlett
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person charged with first-degree assault, who can establish that he acted in “heat of passion,” is constitutionally protected against receiving a greater penalty than he could have received had he caused the death of his victim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Ricketts
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.