Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “designed to arouse the passion and prejudices of the jury and as such are highly inappropriate.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Zunker v. State · Klock v. State

2. “by urging the jury to consider matters not before them, and while effectively acknowledging that to do so was a violation of their solemn oath as jurors ... violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and implicated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Zunker v. State · Klock v. State

3. “En Banc Consideration Disfavored. En banc consideration of a case is not favored and should not be ordered unless necessary to secure or maintain uniformity of a court's decisions or unless extraordinary circumstances require en banc consideration.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. In Re VV