Thompson v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
516 F.2d 986 · 1975
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably United States v. Turkish (1980), Stockton v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1988)
29 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Townsend v. Sain · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Mooney v. Holohan · Ullmann v. United States · Hysler v. State of Florida
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“knew the testimony in question was false.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a recantation, particularly by an accomplice, should be received skeptically.”
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.