State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Schultz (1993), State v. Worwood (2007)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 29 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 Katz v. United States · United States v. Leon · Simmons v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Stone v. Powell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a right to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their bank statements,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. D.T.O. v. State · State v. Worwood“are not confidential communications but [may be] negotiable instruments to be used in commercial transactions. [Records such as] financial statements and deposit slips[] contain only information voluntarily conveyed to the banks and exposed to their employees in the ordinary course of business. ... The depositor takes the risk, in revealing [her] affairs to another, that the information will be conveyed by that person to the Government.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is virtually impossible to participate in the economic life of contemporary society without maintaining an account with a bank,”
2 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.