Thompson v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 18 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 277 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Brown v. Ohio (1977), Harris v. Oklahoma (1977)
124 federal appellate · 18 district · 21 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Waller v. Florida · Ciuzio v. United States · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Campana
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 277 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all the charges against a defendant that grow out of a single criminal act, occurrence, episode, or transaction.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.