338 So. 2d 1045 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1996
12 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 52 Ala. App. 64 - Flurry v. State · Gilliland v. State · 48 Ala. App. 196 - Poellnitz v. State · Underwood v. State · Gaines 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All parties are entitled to truthful answers from prospective jurors on examination of the venire and concealment of facts by silence by such a prospective juror denies the parties their right to advisedly exercise peremptory strikes, but it is permissible for a juror to remain silent until a question applies to him in a manner demanding a response. Flurry v. State, 52 Ala.App. 64 , 289 So.2d 632 , writ denied, 292 Ala. 720 , 289 So.2d 644 ; Poellnitz v. State, 48 Ala.App. 196 , 263 So.2d 181 .” Thomas v. State, 338 So.2d 1045 (Ala.Cr.App.1976).”
2 later decisions 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.