Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Moss v. State (2002), Harwell v. State (1999)
66 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Malcolm v. State · Hicks v. State · Earnest 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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hudson did not question his trial counsel regarding the reasons why counsel chose not to move for limiting instructions regarding the jury's consideration of a certified copy of Hudson's prior felony conviction. `In the absence of contrary evidence, defense counsel's actions are presumed to be part of trial strategy.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile any reference to attempted rape or robbery certainly was extraneous, `we find it highly unlikely that the jury was misled by (this portion of) the charge, since the court also read the indictment to the jury verbatim in advising them of the offense of (assault with a deadly weapon) charged against appellant'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the absence of contrary evidence, defense counsel's actions are presumed to be part of trial strategy.... [Mika] has shown nothing that would demonstrate that his trial counsel failed to exercise reasonable professional judgment in his handling of the 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.