Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently January 1993 · most notably White v. State (1975), Woodard v. State (1950)
58 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 Phillips v. State · Hicks v. State · Clemons v. State · Wimbush v. State · 31 Ala. App. 376 - Daniel 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he nature of the wound or injury, its probable cause and effect can be stated by expert medical witnesses, or witnesses shown to be familiar with such questions....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"No objection can be taken to an indictment, by plea in abatement or otherwise, on the ground that any member of the grand jury was not legally qualified, . . . or on any other ground going to the formation of the grand jury except that the jurors were not drawn in the presence of the officers designated by law. . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In view of the predicate laid, we are unwilling to hold that the trial court abused its discretion in permitting witness Brown to express his opinion that a cut of the kind found on Chaffin was calculated to produce death.”
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.