State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably State v. Odom (1996), State v. Brown (1992)
31 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 Monts v. State · Poe v. State · 118 Ill. App. 2d 51 - People v. Christiansen · Bishop v. State · Webb 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Of course, [t]he general principle in criminal cases is that there is a duty upon the trial judge to give a complete charge of the law applicable to the facts of the case and the defendant has a right to have every issue of fact raised by the evidence and material to his defense submitted to the jury upon proper instructions by the judge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hatcher
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.