Thigpen v. Alabama’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2008 · most notably Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail (1992), Sumner v. Shuman (1987)
47 federal appellate · 9 district · 28 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 State v. Shaw · 372 So. 2d 385 - Thigpen v. State
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.