4 Md. App. 31 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1983 · most notably 5 Md. App. 230 - Harding v. State (1968), State v. Collins (1983)
25 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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · 2 Md. App. 692 - Tender v. State · 2 Md. App. 278 - Agresti 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It means such evidence as you would act upon in a matter involving important affairs in your own life, or in your own business, or with regard to your own property. Now if the evidence is such that you would act upon it in very important matters in your life, ... Evidence is sufficient to remove a reasonable doubt when it convinces the judgment of an ordinarily prudent man or woman of the truth of a proposition with such force that he or she would act upon that conviction without hesitation in his or her own important affairs. ” (Emphasis Supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It means such evidence as you would act upon in a matter involving important affairs in your life or your business or with regard to your property. If the evidence is sufficient that you would act upon it in a very important matter in your own lives, then it is sufficient to convict in a criminal case.” (Emphasis Supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.