State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 1942
5 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. Callahan · State v. Hickman
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would therefore seem that the old penalty no longer exists, unless some saving clause can be found that keeps it in force for the punishment of offenses committed under the old section and before the passage of the new. We are unable to find any such clause.” (Italics are mine.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Young
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.