Thomas v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 1974 · most notably Liberty v. JA Tobin Construction Co., Inc. (1974), State v. Burns (1943)
33 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 Brennon v. Commonwealth · Eversole v. Commonwealth · Smith v. Commonwealth · Alsop v. Commonwealth · Begley v. Commonwealth
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Instructions must be predicated upon the facts of the case; so, before a court is required or justified in giving an instruction to the jury which submits a defense for its consideration, there must be evidence upon which to base such an instruction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.