Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Gaines v. State (2000), McFarland v. State (1985)
36 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 Russell v. State · Carter v. United States · Harris v. State · Butt v. State · Butler 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have long held that all of the circumstances connected with a particular crime may be shown, even if those circumstances would constitute a separate crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lindsey 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.