Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““While ive are not prepared to depart from our own rule a sense of justice compels us in a case like this ivhere there are no other facts or circumstances in any way connecting defendant with the crime, and lapse of time between the larceny and its being found in the possession of defendant is somewhat extended to require the case to be retried with some explanation to the jury as to the meaning of the term ‘recent’.” (emphasis added)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 4 Tenn. Crim. App. 511 - Phipps v. State

2. “While we recognize that the term ‘recent’ is a relative term incapable of exact definition and that, except in perhaps extreme cases, no definite time can be fixed as to when as a matter of law possession is or is not recent, the test of recency is subject to explanation to a jury in such a manner as to call it particularly to the jury’s attention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Anderson