Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently May 2006 · most notably Stokes v. State (1961), Lowman v. State (1920)
46 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 James Howard v. Commonwealth of Kentucky · Maxwell v. State · Davidson v. State · Frank v. State · State v. Hope
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not prepared to say that this opinion is in such conflict with the Watkins, Warfield, and Sherrod'cases, supra, as to necessitate, overruling those cases. However, the rule announced here is the law. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boreing v. Beard“is directly in the face of [the statute] which . . . seems to have been entirely overlooked, or else ignored, in passing upon that question in the Sherrod Case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“consider and expressly pass upon the question of whether the accused may waive his presence during his trial, as provided in Section 1495, Code 1906”
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.