State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably State v. McQuinn (1951), State v. Hubbard (1943)
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. McGuire · State v. Buck · Campbell v. Laclede Gas Light Co. · State v. Sattley · State v. Salmon
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.
“The rule in this state is that full proof of the corpus delicti independent of the defendant's extra judicial admissions is not required. On the contrary, what seemed to be only slight corroborating facts have been held sufficient. State v. McGuire, 327 Mo. 1176 , 39 S.W.2d 523 . Neither is it essential that all the independent proof of the corpus delicti came first in order of proof. 7 R.C.L. § 6, page 778, 16 C.J. § 1514, p. 737.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the evidence, to justify a conviction must be positive, convincing, establishing the defendant guilty of the charge contained in the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hubbard
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.