Thompson v. Leeke’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.2d 314 · 1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2024
3 federal appellate · 4 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 Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Fahy v. Connecticut · Drummond v. Fulton County Department of Family & Children's Services · Williams v. Zahradnick
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test is not, therefore, ... whether laying aside the erroneously admitted evidence there was other evidence sufficient to convict beyond a reasonable doubt ... but, more stringently, 'whether there is a reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lam v. State of Iowa
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.