Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1971
12 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 Gulf Paving Co. v. City of Atlanta · Head v. Edgar Bros. · Jarvis v. State · White v. State of Georgia · 67 Ga. App. 240 - Thompson v. State
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The words "construction of the Constitution," etc., as here employed, contemplate construction where the meaning of some provision of the Constitution is directly in question, and is doubtful by force of its own terms or under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States or of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the provision of the Constitution in which they are employed is not to be construed as denying to the Court of Appeals jurisdiction of cases which involve mere application of unquestioned and unambiguous provisions of the Constitution to a given state of facts.'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Jurisdiction is not vested in the Supreme Court because it is contended that a judgment of confirmation and validation would be contrary to some provisions of the constitution. * * * The present case does not present any question of construction, but involves only the applicability of plain and unambiguous constitutional provisions to a given state of facts. This alone does not confer jurisdiction on the Supreme Court." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in all cases that involve the construction of the Constitution of the State of Georgia or of the United States.”
1 later decision 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.