Thorson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Evans v. State (1997), Goode v. Shoukfeh (1997)
58 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Barker v. Wingo · Beck v. State of Ohio · Brown v. Illinois
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the accused offers testimony that violence, threats of violence, or offers of reward induced the confession.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Kelly v. State“It is in poor grace for counsel to participate without objection in unrecorded bench conferences and complain for the first time on appeal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“must first ... determine[] that the circumstances of the State's use of peremptory challenges against minority venirepersons created an inference of purposeful discrimination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.