State v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
74
cited by 74 later decisions
1
states following
January 2026
most recently cited
73 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · Rock v. Arkansas · Townsend v. Holman Consulting Corp. · Acton v. Deliran
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence is relevant if ... it has any tendency to make a fact [of consequence in determining the action] more or less probable than it would be without the evidence[.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hood · State v. Whitbeck“to prove a person's character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in conformity with the character.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hood · State v. Whitbeck“whether the district judge made an error in admitting or excluding the evidence in question,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gasper · State v. Hood
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.