State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
November 2015
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Toohill · State v. Reinke · State v. Hedger · State v. Brown · State v. Broadhead
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thomas and her son premeditated the heartless and greed-motivated murder of her ailing seventy-three year old boyfriend ... [her] sentence [was] not grossly disproportionate to her crime and does not shock the conscience of reasonable people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adamcik“[i]f an inference of such disproportionality is found, [the Court] must conduct a proportionality analysis comparing [the defendant's] sentence to those imposed on other defendants for similar offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adamcik“not necessary to conduct any further proportionality review”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adamcik
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.