People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2012 · most notably People v. Gutierrez (1981), People v. Larson (1977)
49 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 Furman v. Georgia · Oyler v. Boles · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Maestas v. District Court · Wright v. People
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Both the United States Supreme Court and the Colorado Supreme Court have ruled unequivocably that habitual criminal statutes are constitutional despite contentions that they violate constitutional strictures dealing with double jeopardy, ex post facto laws, cruel and unusual punishments, due process, equal protection, and privileges and immunities. Spencer v. Texas, 385 U.S. 554 , 87 S.Ct. 648 , 17 L.Ed.2d 606 (1964)[(1967)]; Oyler v. Boles, 368 U.S. 448 , 82 S.Ct. 501 , 7 L.Ed.2d 446 (1962); Bernard v. Tinsley, 144 Colo. 244 , 355 P.2d 1098 (1960); Vigil v. People, 137 Colo. 161 , 322 P.2d 320 (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Velarde v. Zavaras“an overwhelming amount of competent evidence apart from this disputed evidence ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.