State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Artis (1989), State v. Kuplen (1986)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Rhode Island v. Innis · People v. . Molineux · State v. McClain · State v. McClain
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]e sure to tell your attorney that you had the opportunity to help yourself and didn't”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Pruitt , the investigating officers repeatedly told defendant that they knew that he had committed the crime and that his story had too many holes in it; that he was 'lying' and that they did not want to 'fool around.' They also told him that they considered [him] the type of person 'that such a thing would prey heavily upon' and that he would be 'relieved to get it off his chest.' The Court found that under these circumstances the defendant's confessions were made under the influence of fear or hope, or both, growing out of the language and acts of those who held him in custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If . . . evidence tends to identify the accused as the perpetrator of the crime charged it is admissible notwithstanding that it also shows defendant guilty of another criminal offense. “Where the accused is not definitely identified as the perpetrator of the crime charged and the circumstances tend to show that the crime charged and another offense were committed by the same person, evidence that the accused committed the other offense is admissible to identify him as the perpetrator of the crime charged.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brown
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.