State v. Tharp’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 1985
19 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 Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · State v. Patterson · State v. McGuire · State v. Hart · State v. Jon
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Another reason why any confession or statements made by the defendant and his accomplices ... to the railroad special agents ... were competent is that the latter were mere private detectives and not persons in authority.... Being only private detectives, admissions made to them would not come under the rule of exclusion discussed in the preceding paragraphs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rinebold
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.