Thompson v. City of Louisville’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
523 federal appellate · 73 district · 379 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,597 later decisions (191 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Jackson v. Virginia (1979), Chapman v. State of California (1967)
523 federal appellate · 73 district · 379 state decisions — followed in 38 states
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 Yick Wo v. Hopkins · Mooney v. Holohan · Schware v. Board of Bar Examiners of NM · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Cannon v. United States
Cited together with Jackson v. Virginia · Garner v. State of Louisiana Briscoe · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia
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 1,597 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * the charges * * * were so totally devoid of evidentiary support as to render [the] conviction unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Decision of this question turns not on the sufficiency of the evidence, but on whether [the] conviction rests upon any evidence at all.””
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . .we find no evidence whatever in the record to support these convictions. Just as ‘Conviction upon a charge not made would be sheer denial of due process,’ so is it a violation of due process to convict and punish a man without evidence of his guilt.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“There is no testimony that petitioner raised his voice, used offensive language, resisted the officers or engaged in any conduct of any kind likely in any way to adversely affect the good order and tranquility of the City of Louisville. . . . [MJerely “arguing” with a policeman is not, because it could not be, “disorderly conduct” under the substantive law of Kentucky.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. John W. · State v. Petty
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.