State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably State v. Anderson (2005), State v. Dann (2003)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 74 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Tichnell v. State · Janson v. Christensen · Fuenning v. SUPER. CT. IN AND FOR CTY. OF MARICOPA
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Premeditation" means that the defendant acts with either the intention or the knowledge that he will kill another human being, when such intention or knowledge precedes the killing by any length of time to permit reflection. Proof of actual reflection is not required, but an act is not done with premeditation if it is the instant effect of a sudden quarrel or heat of passion.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Lehr · Dominguez v. Foster“no meaningful distinction between first and second degree murder,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dominguez v. Foster
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.