Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
February 1985
most recently cited
21 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Meredith v. State · Walker 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We note that evidence of attempted escape is always competent evidence of consciousness of guilt.” Thomas v. State, (1970) 254 Ind. 561, 563 , 261 N.E.2d 224, 225 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Powers 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.