Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 1995 · most notably 366 So. 2d 336 - Summers v. State (1978), 55 Ala. App. 502 - Cassell v. State (1975)
48 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 Simpson v. United States · Thomas v. State · 42 Ala. App. 111 - Duncan v. State · 42 Ala. App. 85 - Willis v. State · 42 Ala. App. 567 - Horsley 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is therefore considered and adjudged by the Court that the said defendant is guilty as charged in the indictment, and the said defendant being asked by the Court if he had anything to say why the sentence of the law should not now be pronounced upon him, says nothing in bar or preclusion of sentence. It is therefore considered and adjudged by the court and it is the judgment and sentence of the court that the said defendant be imprisoned in the penitentiary of the State of Alabama for a term of THIRTY YEARS."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““. . . ‘Coram nobis is not a plenipotentiary mission to retry indictments: it is a carefully guarded engine ‘0 root out egregious fraud or collusion leading to a judgment. . . .’””
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.