State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Edwards (2003), State v. Tisius (2002)
3 federal appellate · 38 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 Thummel v. King · Breast Implant Tort Represented By O'Quinn v. Dow Corning Corp. · Crouch v. United States · State v. Brown · State v. Bernard
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fundamental unfairness occurs when the state's failure to disclose results in defendant's 'genuine surprise' and the surprise prevents meaningful efforts to consider and prepare a strategy for addressing the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“All this has required the Court to parse the points and dissect the argument to discern the gist of the several claims. A point relied on is not the place for rambling, makeweight argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor“Bare assertions of prejudice are not sufficient to establish fundamental unfairness and [do] not show how the trial was substantially altered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.