State v. Thorpe’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2008
7 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 Burlison v. State · McKeldin v. State · State v. Smith · State v. Comstock · State v. Shaw
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court ruled, correctly we think, that because no allegation had been made by the State that any affirmative act by Thorpe had taken place within the limitations period, the first two counts of the presentment should be dismissed. While it is true that the statute of limitations may be tolled when an offense is of a continuing nature, Nashville & Decatur R.R. v. State, 60 Tenn. 55, 56-60 (1873), the specific facts which toll the limitation period must be pleaded and proved. State v. House, 2 Shannon’s Cases 610, 611 (1877); State v. Comstock, 205 Tenn. 389, 393 , 326 S.W.2d 669 (1959); 2 Wharton’s Criminal Procedure Section 274, at 86 (12th ed. 1974). Facts sufficient to toll the statute of limitations were not pleaded or proved here * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davidson
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.