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State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

106
cited by 106 later decisions
2
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

104 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Cummings (2000), State v. Williams (2002)

104 state decisions

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Witt · Darden v. Wainwright · Hernandez v. New York

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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “entitled to great deference since [it] is in a far better position than an appellate court to determine the effect of any [misconduct] on the jury.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 197 N.C. App. 758 - State v. Basnight · 259 N.C. App. 940 - State v. Taylor
  2. “[W]hether substantial and irreparable prejudice has occurred lies within the sound discretion of the trial judge and ... his decision will not be disturbed on appeal absent a showing of abuse of discretion.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 139 N.C. App. 454 - State v. Manning · 259 N.C. App. 940 - State v. Taylor
  3. “[Defendant must first show that counsel’s performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness as defined by professional norms. . . . Second, once defendant satisfies the first prong, he must show that the error committed was so serious that a reasonable probability exists that the trial result would have been different absent the error.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Bailey · State v. Jones

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.