Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Roberts v. State (2013), Kinsey v. State (2016)
74 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 Payne v. Tennessee · Duren v. Missouri · Wicks v. State · Dallas County Commissioners Court v. Richardson · Nooner 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“petit jury actually seated in a'defendant’s case mirror the community and reflect the various distinctive groups in the population. Id. It is axiomatic that the State may not deliberately or systematically deny to members of a defendant’s race the right to participate, as jurors, in the administration of justice. Id. To establish- a prima facie violation of the cross-sectional requirement of a jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. State.1“The pool of names from which prospective jurors are chosen may be expanded from the list of registered voters to include the list of licensed drivers and persons issued an identification card under § 27-16-805.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henderson 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.