State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 1994 · most notably Hemphill v. State (1978), State v. O'Dell Fowler (1967)
6 federal appellate · 38 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Glasser v. United States · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Pyle v. State of Kansas · Alcorta v. Texas
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If we had here the mere failure of the prosecution to produce the shell casings and the ballistics report, we would have a materially different question. . . . Arguments could be made here to justify a mere non-production, . . . We do not rule [on] this point on mere nonproduction. The situation was grossly exaggerated by the argument of the Prosecutor. ... We do not attribute any bad faith to the Prosecutor, nor do we need to do so; his statements were obviously made in the heat of the argument. But the statement, made in words or substance, that no shells were found, materially misled the jury. . . . We hold that the non-production and the argument placed the defendant in a constitutionally unfair position; for this reason, only, the judgment and sentence must be vacated.””
1 later decision 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.