Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 2014
10 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Proffitt v. Florida · Wingo v. Wedding
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence in this case provides no basis upon which the jury could have recommended life imprisonment in order to prevent disparity in sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“it is clear that the purpose of the beatings inflicted in the boat was to prevail upon Savoy to divulge where the money was located.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. State“only when there is no reasonable basis upon which the jury could have based its recommendation.”
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.