Thomas v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably 2 Va. App. 392 - Carter v. Commonwealth (1986), 101 Wash. 2d 445 - City of Seattle v. Williams (1984)
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 Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers · Riadon v. United States · State v. Rankin · People v. Melton · 13 Md. App. 425 - Staten v. State
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.
“`The authorities are uniformly to the effect that a motion for withdrawal of waiver made after the commencement of the trial is not timely and should not be allowed.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he record [wa]s devoid of any showing that a jury could not have been impaneled for the trial on December 3; that the motion was made solely for the purpose of delay; and that a continuance of the cases . . . would unduly delay the trial or impede the cause of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. COKES v. Com.
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.