21 Md. App. 572 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1999
17 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 Bloom v. Illinois · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · State v. Roll and Scholl · Moquin v. State · In Re Johnson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) To provide for the care, protection and wholesome mental and physical development of children coming within the provisions of this subtitle; and to provide for a program of treatment, training, and rehabilitation consistent with the child’s best interests and the protection of the public interest; (2) To remove from children committing delinquent acts the taint of criminality and the consequences of criminal behavior; (3) To conserve and strengthen the child’s family ties and to separate a child from his parents only when necessary for his welfare or in the interest of public safety; (4) If necessary to remove a child from his home, to secure for him custody, care, and discipline as nearly as possible equivalent to that which should have been given by his parents; (5) To provide judicial procedures for carrying out the provisions of this subtitle."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Ann M.“bear in mind, in meting out punishment, that they are dealing with a juvenile.”
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.