Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Collins (2011), Kevin Hough v. Rondle Anderson (2001)
62 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Benton v. Maryland · Lockhart v. Nelson · Maldonado v. State · United States v. York · Leonard v. United States
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ind. Evidence Rule 404(b). The well-established rationale behind Evid. R. 404(b) is that the jury is precluded from making the”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]vidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[dlouble jeopardy forbids a retrial-even where the defendant requests it as here-if the reviewing court concludes that the evidence is legally insufficient to support the conviction. Evidence is sufficient if the probative evidence and reasonable inferences drawn from the evidence could have allowed a reasonable trier of fact to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. In this review, we do not reweigh evidence or assess the credibility of witnesses.”
3 later decisions 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.