State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably State v. Wade (1978), State v. Pokini (1974)
30 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 Starr v. United States · Bursten v. United States
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is well known, as a matter of judicial notice, that juries are highly sensitive to every utterance by the trial judge, * * * and that some comments may be so highly prejudicial that even a strong admonition by the judge to the jury * * * will not cure the error.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * the influence of the trial judge on the jury is necessarily and properly of great weight, and that his lightest word or intimation is received with deference, and may prove controlling.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“precluding comment by a court during trial, it must”
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.