Thompkins v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 330 · 1992
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably United States v. Levy (1994), United States v. Edelmann (2006)
27 federal appellate · 6 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Weatherford v. Bursey · Wood v. Georgia · Wardius v. Oregon
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“show that the errors or irregularities of which he complains probably caused a miscarriage of justice, that is, the conviction of an innocent person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t may induce the lawyer to pull his punches in defending his client lest the prosecutor's office be angered by an acquittal and retaliate against the lawyer”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.