State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2001
10 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 Anders v. California · Lombard v. Marcera · Love v. Fitzharris · State v. Deddens · In re Disbarment of Kahn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statutes which detrimentally affect parole eligibility are unconstitutional as applied to a person charged with a crime committed prior to enactment of the statute”). Defendant argues that application of only the commutation portion of the amended statute will not violate the prohibition against ex post facto laws and therefore requests a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Stine
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.