State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1987 · most notably State v. Rodriguez (1980), State v. Buckley (1976)
2 district · 28 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 State v. Fisher · State v. Calder · State v. Shadwell · State v. Mumford · State v. Park
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Any evidence, however slight, which shows that the homicide was committed under such circumstances as to eliminate the element of malice, requires a charge on the law of manslaughter. ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Taylor““It is a fundamental rule that the court’s instructions should cover every issue or theory having support in the evidence. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Taylor
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.