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Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1967

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
May 1982
most recently cited

13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 1982

13 state decisions

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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 Gamble v. Lewis · Schlegel v. State · Dull v. State · Kern v. Bridwell · Swift 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““. . . On appeal to this Court for insufficiency of the evidence, it is not within the province of the Court, on appeal, to weigh conflicting evidence or judge the credibility of witnesses so long as the evidence in support is substantial. Wells v. State (1963), 245 Ind. 183 , 197 N. E. 2d 301 , quoting with authority from the following: Swift v. State (1961), 242 Ind. 87 , 176 N. E. 2d 117 ; Schlegel v. State (1958), 238 Ind. 374 , 150 N. E. 2d 563 . It is, therefore, for the court or jury to examine the credibility of the witness. If it is convinced by the testimony offered, we may not usurp its prerogative and overturn its decision on credibility alone. “In this case, Mr. Thomas waived a jury and chose to put his destiny in the hands of the Court. The Court, having all of the evidence before it, chose to believe witness Duck-worth and we cannot say his testimony was insufficient, as a matter of law.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Smith 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.