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Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

43
cited by 43 later decisions
2
states following
March 2021
most recently cited

43 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Jackson v. State (2003), Dumas v. State (1996)

43 state decisions

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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 Milanovich v. United States · United States v. Gaddis · 89 Ga. App. 866 - Austin v. State · 155 Ga. App. 196 - Sosbee v. State · 199 Ga. App. 586 - Thomas 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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[W]here there are mutually exclusive convictions, it is insufficient for an appellate court merely to set aside the lesser verdict, because to do so is to speculate about what the jury might have done if properly instructed, and to usurp the functions of both the jury and the trial court.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Martinez v. State · Flores v. State
  2. ““The offense of theft by receiving is intended to catch the person who buys or receives stolen goods, as distinct from the principal thief.” Sosbee v. State, 155 Ga. App. 196, 197 ( 270 SE2d 367 ) (1980). An essential element of the crime of theft by receiving is, “that the goods had been stolen by some person other than the accused. . . .” Austin v. State, 89 Ga. App. 866, 868 ( 81 SE2d 508 ) (1954).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 268 Ga. App. 149 - Ingram 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.