State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 1977 · most notably State v. Terry (1959), State v. Griffin (1960)
27 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 State v. Gaddy · State v. Hogan · State v. Bartlett · State v. Sheard · State v. Campbell
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. The Court erred in failing to instruct the jury on points of law properly raised by the evidence in that the Court failed to instruct the jury as to manslaughter which was fairly raised by the evidence, as required by Supreme Court Rule 26.02 (6).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mosley
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.