State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2009
6 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 Lessenhop v. Norton · Toomer v. Iowa Department of Job Service · State v. Massey · Walker v. Iowa Department of Job Service
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The results of (a) preliminary screening test may be used for the purpose of deciding whether an arrest should be made and whether to request a chemical test authorized in (Chapter 321J) but shall not be used in any court action except to prove that a chemical test was properly requested of a person pursuant to (Chapter 321J).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Deshaw · State v. Zell“the test of prejudice [for harmless error purposes] is whether it sufficiently appears that the rights of the complaining party have been injuriously affected or that the party has suffered a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Traywick
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.