State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Smith (1980), State v. Jones (1971)
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 State v. Cooper · State v. Griffin · Suits v. Old Equity Life Insurance Company · State v. . Graham
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nevertheless, we point out that in determining what punishment should be imposed upon a defendant, a court is not confined to evidence relating to the offense charged. 'It may look anywhere, within reasonable limits, for other facts calculated to enable it to act wisely in fixing punishment. Hence, it may inquire into such matters as the age, character, the education, the environment, the habits, the mentality, the propensities, and the record of the person about to be sentenced.’ State v. Cooper, 238 N.C. 241, 244 , 77 S.E. 2d 695, 698 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stallings · State v. Moore
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.