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Thompson v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis

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Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1989
most recently cited

1 state decisions

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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “that the judge feels a clear and strong conclusion of their incompatibility with each other.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “slight implication and vague conjecture,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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