State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 726 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 755 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Carter (1995)
15 federal appellate · 726 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Beck v. Alabama · Keeble v. United States · Ohio v. Johnson
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 755 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only where the evidence presented at trial would reasonably support both an acquittal on the crime charged and a conviction upon the lesser included offense.”
64 later decisions quote this exact passage““No person shall cause the death of another as a proximate result of the offender’s committing or attempting to commit a misdemeanor.””
12 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘ * * * [I]f you find that The State has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the element of prior calculation and design, then your verdict must be that the Defendant is not guilty of aggravated murder. “ ‘You will then proceed with your deliberations and decide whether The State has proven beyond a reasonable doubt all of the essential elements of the lesser crime of murder.’ ” Id., 40 Ohio St.3d at 220 , 533 N.E.2d at 293 .”
10 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.