State v. Thorsby’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2021
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.
Relationships
Relies on Orner v. United States · State v. Arabie · State v. Milk · State v. Tiegen · State v. McKinney
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.
“[T]he sentencing judge may exercise wide discretion with respect to the type of information used as well as its source. He should have full access to the fullest information possible concerning the defendant’s life and characteristics. Information which should be available to the court includes general moral character, mentality, habits, social environment, tendencies, age, aversion or inclination to commit crime, life, family, occupation, and previous criminal record....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. MARSHEK“If an ex parte communication is invited or initiated by the judge, no prejudice needs to be shown.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[n]o person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law[.]”
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.