Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2016
17 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 United States v. Ventresca · United States v. Harris · Lee v. State · Cole v. State · 231 So. 2d 779 - Strode 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is settled in this state that the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice will support a guilty verdict, but the rule requires that such uncorroborated testimony should be viewed with great caution and suspicion and that it must be reasonable and not improbable or self-contradictory or substantially impeached. Black v. State, Miss., 336 So.2d 1302 , handed down September 7, 1976; Hutchins v. State, 220 So.2d 276 (Miss. 1969); Cole v. State, 217 Miss. 779 , 65 So.2d 262 (1953).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. State · Wall v. State“the law looks with suspicion and distrust upon the testimony of an accomplice and requires the jury to weigh such testimony with great care and caution and to look upon it with distrust and suspicion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson 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.