Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 1980
18 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 Smith v. State · Walker v. State · Whitney v. State · Willinnar 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant’s attorney in this appeal then filed a motion for new trial for appellant in which he questioned the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a conviction. This motion was heard by the trial judge, who had full authority to set the verdict aside and grant appellant a new trial, if he felt the evidence was such as to leave a reasonable doubt of appellant’s guilt.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. State
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.