Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Phillips v. State (2009), Barrett v. State (2012)
26 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 · Mallory v. State · Barnes v. State · Chapel v. State · Pruitt 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[H]ow to deal with the presentation of an expert witness by the .opposing side, including whether to present counter expert testimony, to rely upon cross-examination, to forgo cross-examination and/or to forgo development of certain expert opinion, is a matter of trial strategy which, -if reasonable, cannot be the basis for a successful ineffective assistance of counsel claim.’ ’’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Woods v. State · Marshall v. State“must show counsel’s performance was deficient and that the deficient performance prejudiced him to the point that a reasonable probability exists that, but for counsel’s errors, the outcome of the trial would have been different. A strong presumption exists that counsel’s conduct falls within the broad range of professional conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Phillips 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.