Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably McChesney v. State (1999), 284 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Riley (1981)
30 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 Frank v. State · 198 So. 2d 651 - Riddlehoover 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“pretrial motion to sever should have been granted. Because the cocaine was found on the floor between the co-defendant's legs, a conflict between the defendants' defense was inherent in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dean v. State · Andrews v. State“"The stop here can only be classified as an exploratory one based on unfounded suspicion."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Currens v. State · State v. Comeau
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.