35 Tex. Crim. 178 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1989
4 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“A full confession of guilt with the particulars of the crime was made before the grand jury voluntarily, and after being cautioned. This confession was introduced in evidence against defendant over his objection, the objection being that you could not admit the confessions because they were made before the grand jury. It is settled in this State that while such evidence is not properly admissible for all purposes, nor in reference to all proceedings of the grand jury, it is competent when in the judgment of the court it is material to the due administration of justice. The case of Ruby v. State, 9 Texas Criminal Appeals, 353, was overruled in Clanton's case, 13 Texas Criminal Appeals, 139; Thompson v. State, 19 Texas Criminal Appeals, 594; Scott v. State, 23 Texas Criminal Appeals, 522.”
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.