Compton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Thomas v. State (1981), Moody v. State (1992)
65 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 Burks v. United States · United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey · Greene v. Massey · Sanabria v. United States · Alejandro 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sharpe v. State · Iglehart v. State“(24) `Owner' means a person who has title to the property, possession of the property, whether lawful or not, or a greater right to possession of the property than the actor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharpe v. State · Thomas v. State“[t]he McGee interpretation is wrong. By adding the third theory of ownership to the penal code, i.e., greater right to possession, it is clear that the Legislature intended to expand the class of individuals to be protected from theft, [citations omitted]. Though this third theory clearly applies to those persons with joint interest in property [citation omitted] it is equally applicable to allegations of corporate ownership.”
2 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.