Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Colwell v. State (2002), Means v. State (2004)
30 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 Lozada v. State · Castellanos v. United States · Marrow v. United States · Kirksey v. State · Peter Ray Laycock v. State of New Mexico
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tjhere is no constitutional requirement that counsel must always inform a defendant who pleads guilty of the right to pursue a direct appeal unless the defendant inquires about a direct appeal or there exists a direct appeal claim that has a reasonable likelihood of success. The burden is on the defendant to indicate to his attorney that he wishes to pursue an appeal. Appellant failed to demonstrate that he inquired about a direct appeal or had a direct appeal claim that had a reasonable likelihood of success.”
1 later decision 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.