Thornburgh v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
December 2021
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Opper v. United States · Spuehler v. State · Parks v. State · Cooper v. State · Rawlings v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not required to prove the corpus delicti beyond a reasonable doubt independent of a defendant's confession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fontenot v. State
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.