Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently December 1999 · most notably Tinnin v. State (1981), Ledcke v. State (1973)
90 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 Lambert v. State · Duran v. People · Gonzales v. People · Wojcik v. State · Feltes v. People
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intent and capability to maintain control and dominion over”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"While an accused must have actual knowledge of the presence of the item and of the item's character, this knowledge can be inferred from the fact that the item was found in a place under his dominion and control."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The above statement by the Colorado Supreme Court is applicable to the established law of Indiana and is dis-positive of the issues in this case.””
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.