State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1981 · most notably Ziang Sung Wan v. United States (1924), State v. Seward (1947)
46 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 Counselman v. Hitchcock · State v. Barrington · State v. Foley · State v. Jones · State v. Naughton
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the opinion of the writer there is grave doubt as to the propriety or necessity of trial courts giving any instruction attempting to define the weight to be given to oral admissions or confessions against interest. Such instructions violate the plain letter and spirit of section 5244, Revised Statutes 1909 (now Sec. 3694, Mo. St. Ann., p. 3249), prohibiting courts from commenting upon evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Long
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.