State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably State v. Grim (1993), State v. Franco (1976)
88 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 Boykin v. Alabama · McCarthy v. United States · Burgett v. Texas · Curley v. United States · Borum 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he mere existence of other possible hypothesis is not enough to remove the case from the jury.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ivery · State v. Arnold“[T]he facts and circumstances relied upon by the State to establish guilt `must not only be consistent with each other and with the hypothesis of defendant's guilt, but they must also be inconsistent and irreconcilable with his innocence and must point so clearly and satisfactorily to his guilt as to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O'DELL · State v. Abbott““[i]n a case involving circumstantial evidence the circumstances need not be absolutely conclusive of guilt, and they need not demonstrate impossibility of innocence^,] .... the mere existence of other possible hypothesis is not enough to remove the case from the jury.” [Emphasis added.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Norris · State v. Connor
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.