Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2020
15 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Swaite v. State · Cromwell v. State · Rowe v. State · Akins 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provide that there may not be a conviction for two separate offenses when the statutory definition of one criminal offense encompasses all of the statutorily defined elements of a lesser included offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) A person commits aggravated robbery if, [with the purpose of committing a theft or resisting apprehension immediately thereafter, he employs or threatens to employ physical force upon another] and he (a) is armed with a deadly weapon, or represents by word or conduct that he is so armed ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes v. State“(1) A person commits battery in the first degree if: *** (c) he causes serious physical injury to another person under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhodes 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.