Banks v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1 district · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Dowling v. Slotnik (1998), Eldridge v. Eldridge (1998)
1 district · 81 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 Ornelas v. United States · United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Evitts v. Lucey · In re Oliver · Shillitani v. United States
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]very presumption is to be indulged in favor of jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is axiomatic that, except insofar as the constitution bestows upon this court jurisdiction to hear certain cases ... the subject matter jurisdiction of the Appellate Court and of this court is governed by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“determine whether such a bar would be a constitutionally impermissible encroachment upon this court's authority to entertain a writ of error”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skipwith
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.