State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Thrift (1994), Middleborough Horizontal Property Regime Council of Co-Owners v. Montedison S.P.A. (1995)
26 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. Williams · State v. Allen · Madden v. Cox · State v. Griffin · State v. McINTIRE
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a common sense reading [to] the indictment as a whole”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Wilkes · State v. Barnett“The true test of the sufficiency of an indictment is not whether it could be made more definite and certain, but whether it contains the necessary elements of the offense intended to be charged and sufficiently apprises the defendant of what he must be prepared to meet.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Barnett“Speculation about 'potential' abuse of grand jury proceedings cannot substitute for evidence of actual abuse as grounds for quashing an otherwise lawful indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Shands
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.