Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2014
5 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 Mercer v. State · 198 So. 2d 21 - State v. Williams · 299 So. 2d 37 - Brown v. State · 345 So. 2d 856 - State v. Snowden · Strickland 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the informant’s recitation amply and, as it turned out, accurately depicted the criminal plan, the deputy’s testimony of the recitation was hearsay which could not competently evidence the purpose of the accused survivors of the invasion. That [the defendant] and his confederates intended to force entry by means of weapons, and to commit some violent offense on the premises, cannot be doubted; but the dead informant’s prior accusation is not competent proof that the survivors intended robbery rather than murder, rape, or some other vicious assault....”
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.