Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1980
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Sorrells v. United States · Grimm v. United States · People v. Murphy · City of Evanston v. Myers · State v. Lucas
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““By an overwhelming weight of authority it is held that a person making an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor is not excused from the criminal consequence because the sale was induced for the purpose of securing inculpating testimony.” 219 of 131 Tenn., 1130 of 174 S.W.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warden v. State
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.