State v. Thompkins’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19,158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19,179 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Eastley v. Volkman (2012), State v. Smith (1997)
19,158 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Tibbs v. Florida · State v. Gaines
Cited together with State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Strickland v. Washington · State v. Dehass · Jackson v. Virginia
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 19,179 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be exercised only in the exceptional case in which the evidence weighs heavily against the conviction.”
3,350 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o reverse a judgment of a trial court on the basis that the judgment is not sustained by sufficient evidence, only a concurring majority of a panel of a court of appeals reviewing the judgment is necessary.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage“reverse a judgment of a trial court on the weight of the evidence, when the judgment results from a trial by jury, a unanimous concurrence of all three judges on the court of appeals panel reviewing the case is required.”
62 later decisions 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.