State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 111 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2020 · most notably Clark v. Arizona (2006), State v. Syriani (1993)
2 federal appellate · 100 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 Sandstrom v. Montana · Francis v. Franklin · State v. Hennis · State v. Holden · State v. Johnson
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 111 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“So long as there is some evidence in the record reasonably supporting the theory that defendant fled after commission of the crime charged, the instruction is properly given. The fact that there may be other reasonable explanations for defendant's conduct does not render the instruction improper.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mere evidence that defendant left the scene of the crime is not enough to support an instruction on flight. There must also be some evidence that defendant took steps to avoid apprehension.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage““[pjhotographs of homicide victims are admissible at trial even if they are ‘gory, gruesome, horrible, or revolting, so long as they are used by a witness to illustrate his testimony and so long as an excessive number of photographs are not used solely to arouse the passions of the jury.’ ” State v. Thompson, 328 N.C. 477, 491 , 402 S.E.2d 386, 394 (1991) (quoting State v. Murphy, 321 N.C. 738 , 741, 365 S.E.2d 615, 617 (1988)). “Photographs may also be introduced in a murder trial to illustrate testimony regarding the manner of killing so as to prove circumstantially the elements of murder in the first degree.” State v. Hennis, 323 N.C. 279, 284 , 372 S.E.2d 523, 526 (1988).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Bates
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.