State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1990
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 10 Cal. 3d 750 - People v. Poddar · State v. Evans · State v. Clayton · State v. Chalmers · State v. Bray
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The phrase ‘wanton disregard for human life’ has been held to reflect the statutory standard. State v. Mendell, 111 Ariz. 51 , 523 P.2d 79 (1974); People v. Poddar, 10 Cal.3d 750 , 111 Cal.Rptr. 910 , 518 P.2d 342 (1974). We find no significant difference between the use of ‘wanton’ and the use of ‘reckless.’ Neither instruction conveys the idea that grossly negligent behavior is sufficient to find the malice necessary for murder as the appellant argues. State v. Men-dell, supra.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kelly
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.