State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2014
22 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 Sealfon v. United States · Evergreens v. Nunan · State v. Schenk · State v. Hild · State v. Burgess
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant also asserts as an error certain remarks made by Mr. Thayer, State’s attorney, in his opening statement to the jury. It is true that in that statement there were statements made as to what the State would prove, which a reading of the record shows was not proven, and some of them are of the nature that might lead us to believe that it was known they could not be proved. However, in every ease that is tried, there are usually found statements by counsel as to what they expect to prove but later find that they are unable to do so. While it is not, in all cases, necessary to interpose objections, yet none was entered here and we are not prepared to say that such statements show deliberate bad faith on the part of counsel, such as to constitute reversible error.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Roberts
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.