State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Negron v. United States · State v. Dorthey · Griffith v. United States · Harris v. Rivera
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in which a mandated sentence can be altered are even less likely in the case of a life sentence chosen by the legislature for a single crime, such as aggravated rape or second degree murder. State v. Chandler , supra . In such crimes, unlike the mandatory minimum sentence under the habitual offender law, the”
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.