State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), State v. Brown (1985)
3 federal appellate · 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 Williams v. People of State of New York · United States v. Tucker · McGautha v. California · United States v. Grayson · National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People v. Federal Power Commission
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial judge should exercise extreme caution in this area and should refrain from finding perjury as an aggravating factor except in the most extreme case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Rogers · State v. Vandiver“[T]he character of the defendant, his conduct, and particularly that conduct as it reflects his attitude toward society and its laws, are relevant considerations for a trial judge in determining what sentence [is] to be imposed. Perjury at trial often indicates a defendant’s continued defiance of society’s system of laws and to that extent reflects on his potential for rehabilitation and is thus ‘reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The primary purposes of sentencing a person convicted of a crime are to impose a punishment commensurate with the injury the offense has caused, taking into account factors that may diminish or increase the offender’s culpability; to protect the public by restraining offenders; to assist the offender toward rehabilitation and restoration to the community as a lawful citizen; and to provide a general deterrent to criminal behavior.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.