People v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 166 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 176 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 10 Cal. 3d 703 - People v. Sedeno (1974), 70 Cal. 2d 15 - People v. Anderson (1968)
2 federal appellate · 166 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 People v. Albertson · People v. Holt · People v. Dail · People v. Howard · People v. Fowler
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 176 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere unconsidered or rash impulse hastily executed”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage““All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait, torture, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which is committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem, is murder of the first degree, and all other kinds of murders are of the second degree.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be formed upon a pre- existing reflection and not upon a sudden heat of passion sufficient to preclude the idea of deliberation”
3 later decisions 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.