State v. Thompson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that evidence establishing that the victim disappeared without contacting friends or family, providing for her cat, and after having made future appointments, strongly indicated she was dead and that her death was caused by criminal conduct
• relying on the victim’s habits regarding housework, patterns of contact with her friends, and care of her pets, as well as evidence that she disappeared suddenly and without warning, as creating a strong inference that she died and her death was sudden and caused by criminal means
• relying on the victim’s habits regarding housework, patterns of contact with her friends, and care of her pets, as well as evidence that she disappeared suddenly and without warning, as creating a strong inference that she died and her death was sudden and caused by criminal means
• “A defendant’s extrajudicial confession is not admissible at trial unless independent proof establishes the corpus delicti of a crime.” (emphasis added)
• \[HJabit describes one's regular response to a repeated specific situation so that doing the habitual act becomes semi-automatic. It is the notion of the invariable regularity that gives habit evidence its probative force.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Aten
  Washington Supreme Court· 1996-11-27· cited 189×
• State v. Hummel
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2012-01-03· cited 24×
• State v. Rooks
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2005-12-19· cited 20×
• Rivera v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-05-04· cited 12×
• Ventura v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2016-05-04· cited 6×
• State v. Perez-Cervantes
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1998-03-13· cited 3×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-08-28· cited 1,403×
• State v. Hoffman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1991-01-10· cited 461×
• Epperly v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1982-09-09· cited 179×
• State v. Reed
  Washington Supreme Court· 1984-06-28· cited 175×
• State v. Case
  Washington Supreme Court· 1956-06-07· cited 140×
• Hudson v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-28· cited 137×
• City of Bremerton v. Corbett
  Washington Supreme Court· 1986-08-21· cited 110×
• State v. Meyer
  Washington Supreme Court· 1951-01-04· cited 108×
• State v. Adams
  Washington Supreme Court· 1969-09-11· cited 107×
• State v. Lung
  Washington Supreme Court· 1967-01-26· cited 64×
• Maehren v. City of Seattle
  Washington Supreme Court· 1979-08-10· cited 61×
• State v. Neslund
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1988-02-08· cited 57×
• State v. Stith
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1993-08-16· cited 49×
• State v. Reeder
  Washington Supreme Court· 1955-07-14· cited 41×
• State v. Stover
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1992-08-24· cited 30×
• University of Hawaii Professional Assembly v. University of Hawaii
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1983-02-18· cited 29×
• State v. Sellers
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-02-15· cited 28×
• Derring v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-07-13· cited 22×
• State v. Quillin
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-08-25· cited 21×
• Norris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1987-02-18· cited 17×