Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
36 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Irons v. State · Deason v. State · Williams v. State · Horn v. State · Hoover 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We will reverse the denial of post-conviction relief only if the findings of the lower court are clearly against a preponderance of the evidence ... thus, the question to be resolved is whether the trial court’s findings were clearly against a preponderance of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was probably not suffering from mental disease ... of such degree as to make him unable to appreciate the criminality of his conduct ... at the time of the alleged offense”
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.