Thigpen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
April 1971
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Epperson 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Court of Criminal Appeals will not modify a sentence alleged to be excessive unless it is convinced from an examination of the entire record that the verdict and sentence based thereon' was manifestly excessive and apparently given under passion and prejudice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Benson 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.