Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1996 · most notably Barnes v. Glen Theatre, Inc. (1991), Shipman v. State (1962)
53 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 Baker v. State · Penn v. State · Robertson v. State · Carrier v. State · Hutchins 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Mere suspicion of guilt is not sufficient to sustain a conviction, nor is mere opportunity or the bare possibility of an opportunity to commit a crime sufficient. There must be substantial evidence of probative value presented in a criminal trial before a conviction can be sustained. A mere scintilla of evidence is not enough. Baker v. State (1956), 236 Ind. 55 , 138 N.E.2d 641 ; Robertson v. State (1952), 231 Ind. 368 , 108 N.E.2d 711 ; Sullivan v. State (1928) 200 Ind. 43 , 161 N.E. 265 * * *."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Madison v. State“[W]e consider the inherent inconsistency and improbability, particularly as to the essential element of identity.... [S]ome of the most tragic errors of courts of law have been chiefly due to honest but imperfect and over-zealous attempts of witnesses in making identifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"We know through common experience and psychology that a usual attribute of children is imagination and that they are easily susceptible to suggestion. Outside ideas adopted by them easily become realities and they honestly believe their imaginings to be true."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawrence v. State
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.