Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Blackburn v. State (1973), Pirtle v. State (1975)
44 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 People v. Willy · Siberry v. State · Osburn v. State · Greenwalt v. State · Beatty 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he most acceptable test of relevancy is the question, does the evidence offered render the desired inference more probable than it would be without the evidence? " McCormick, Evidence, § 185 at 437. In Indiana, "evidence tending to prove a material fact is admissible, even though its tendency in that direction may be exceedingly slight.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pirtle 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.