State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2010
9 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 North Carolina v. Alford · McCarthy v. United States · Blackledge v. Allison · 425 So. 2d 1251 - State v. Telsee · 396 So. 2d 1288 - State v. Galliano
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“THE COURT: Now, do you understand that on the manslaughter charge the jury might believe that this was in self defense? If they believed your story one hundred percent? A. I am so tired, I just want to go on and get it over with. THE COURT: Well, it won't be over with, that is what I'm saying. It will be a long sentence imposed, and I don't want you to plead guilty to something that you did not do. If the jury accepted your version of what happened, that there was a struggle, that he started it and you were defending yourself, that they could find you not guilty. A. Yes sir. THE COURT: Do you understand that by pleading guilty, you are going to give up that right to have that jury consider that? A. Yes sir.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The court shall state for the record the considerations taken into account and the factual basis therefor in imposing sentence.”
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.