Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2018
12 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 Tibbs v. Florida · 397 So. 2d 1120 - Tibbs v. State · 397 So. 2d 775 - Nationwide Mut. Ins. v. Ed Soules Const. Co. · 508 So. 2d 11 - Agan v. Duggar · 515 So. 2d 227 - Phillips v. Dugger
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the defendant may have the burden of going forward with evidence of self-defense, the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt never shifts from the State, and this standard broadly includes the requirement that the State prove that the defendant did not act in self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he State must prove the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, and when the defendant presents a prima facie case of - 16 - self-defense, the State's burden includes 'proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.