Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 73 Ark. App. 146 - Wheeler Construction Co. v. Armstrong (2001), Williams v. State (2005)
48 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 Cox v. State · Kyle v. State · Hales v. State · Russell v. State · Mountain Home School District No. 9 v. T.M.J. Builders, Inc.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled that penal statutes are strictly construed with all doubts resolved in favor of the defendant, and nothing is taken as intended which is not clearly expressed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Williams v. State · Hunt v. State“For the purpose of determining whether a defendant has previously been convicted or found guilty of two (2) or more felonies, a conviction or finding of guilt of burglary and of the felony that was the object of the burglary shall be considered a single felony conviction or finding of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson 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.