22 N.C. App. 206 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2016
14 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · North Carolina v. Pearce · Presbyterian Church v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · State v. Brunner · United States v. Mackiewicz
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the defendant was free to go at his pleasure; (2) whether the defendant was coherent in thought and speech, and not under the influence of drugs or alcohol; and (3) whether officers intended to arrest the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“atmosphere and physical surroundings during the questioning manifest[ed] a lack of restraint or compulsion[,]”
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.