State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 85 Ill. 2d 281 - People of Illinois v. Myers (1981), State v. Cooper (1977)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 State v. Davis · State v. Harrington · State v. Wright · State v. Block · State v. Smith
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]n attempt is an intent to do a particular criminal thing, with ■ an act towards it falling short of the thing intended. * * * The defendant must have taken steps going beyond mere preparation, by doing something bringing him nearer the crime he intends to commit. * * * The act need not, however, be the ultimate step toward, or the last proximate, or the last possible, act to the consummation of the crime attempted to be perpetrated. * * * ” State v. Thomas, 438 S.W.2d 441, 446 (Mo.1969).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reyes · State v. Dinkins“The original information did not state an offense because the supporting statute had been repealed. Filing the original information under a repealed statute was the same as if nothing in the nature of a complaint had been filed. That is to say, there was nothing before the court until the so-called amended information was filed; the first and only valid information sufficient to charge the commission of an offense was [the “amended” information.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boshers
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.