State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Syriani (1993), State v. Braxton (2000)
90 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hernandez v. New York · McKoy v. North Carolina
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because the sexual act was committed during a continuous transaction that began when the victim was alive, we conclude the evidence was sufficient to support defendant’s conviction for first-degree sexual offense. This Court, on numerous occasions, has held that to support convictions for a felony offense and related felony murder, all that is required is that the elements of the underlying offense and the murder occur in a time frame that can be perceived as a single transaction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Deference to the trial court findings on the issue of discriminatory intent makes particular sense in this context because, as we noted in Batson , the finding will “largely turn on evaluation of credibility.” ... In the typical peremptory challenge inquiry, the decisive question will be whether counsel’s race-neutral explanation for a peremptory challenge should be believed. There will seldom be much evidence bearing on that issue, and the best evidence often will be the demeanor of the attorney who exercises the challenge. As with the state of mind of a juror, evaluation of the prosecutor’s state of mind based on demeanor and credibility lies “particularly within a trial judge’s province.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his argument falls short of showing discrimination in a practice as complex as jury selection, which we have recognized is “more art than science” and in which “[r]arely will a single factor control the decision-making process.” . . . Therefore, “[s]o long as the motive does not appear to be racial discrimination, the prosecutor may exercise peremptory challenges on the basis of ‘legitimate “hunches” and past experience.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.