Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 594 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 603 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably 133 S. Ct. 1911 - Trevino v. Thaler (2013), In the Interest of M.S. (2003)
4 federal appellate · 594 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 Strickland v. Washington · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Cronic · Roy v. Gravel · McKinney v. Baldwin
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 603 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarate v. State · In Re SAS“An allegation of ineffective assistance must be firmly founded in the record, and the record must affirmatively demonstrate the alleged ineffectiveness.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Protection of HW · In Re KK“a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Zarate v. State · In Re J.O.A.
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.