356 So. 2d 757 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 680 So. 2d 980 - Puckett v. State (1996), 669 So. 2d 220 - Clayton v. State (1995)
27 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 Armstrong v. State · 46 Ala. App. 310 - Martin v. State · 43 Ala. App. 509 - Holman v. State · 342 So. 2d 1348 - Rainer v. State · Jones v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he standard of proof is not reasonable doubt or preponderance of the evidence, but reasonable satisfaction from the evidence”
2 later decisions 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.