State v. Thompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Vontress (1998), State v. Saleem (1999)
28 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 Johnson v. United States · Gerstein v. Pugh · Hormel v. Helvering · Piper v. Chris-Craft Industries, Inc. · In re Disbarment of Chopak
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a literal application of K.S.A. 21-3401 would allow any felony to support a charge of felony murder so long as a causal relation exists, we have never allowed the doctrine to be applied so broadly. The purpose of the felony murder doctrine is to deter those engaged in felonies from killing negligently or accidentally, and it should not be extended beyond the rational function it was designed to serve.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Sophophone“Murder in the first degree is the killing of a human being committed . . . in the commission of, attempt to commit, or flight from any inherently dangerous felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Milo
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.