State v. Thompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
127 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1997), State v. Singleton (2009)
127 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 Martinez v. California · State v. Awan · Clements v. Fashing · Fabrey v. McDonald Village Police Department · Arnold v. City of Cleveland
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he legislation being questioned will not be invalidated unless the challenger establishes that it is unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The party challenging the statutes bears the burden of proving otherwise.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`if it bears a real and substantial relation to the public health, safety, morals or general welfare of the public and if it is not unreasonable or arbitrary.'”
1 later decision 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.