Thompson v. Lynaugh’s Empirical Analysis
821 F.2d 1054 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably United States v. Desimone (1997), Paulson v. State (2000)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wong Sun v. United States · Boykin v. Alabama · North Carolina v. Alford · Brady v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“although the jury must be instructed that the State bears the burden of proving the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, attempts by trial courts to define "reasonable doubt" have been disfavored by this Court. Such attempts often result in using the term itself in the definition and serve only to confuse the concept in the minds of the jurors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“common meaning is sufficiently clear to allow the jury to decide the special issues on punishment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. Johnson
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.