Ex Parte Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably Ex Parte Harrell (1985), Loggins v. State (2000)
1 federal appellate · 46 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Harris v. Rivera · 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State · Stewart v. Florida · Holtan v. Nebraska
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no significant history of prior criminal activity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The sentences received by co-defendants must be considered by this court in determining the appropriateness of a death sentence on appeal, Beck v. State, 396 So.2d [645] 664 [ (Ala.1980) ], but they are not controlling per se. (Appellant’s contention that the trial court should have expressly considered the sentences received by appellant’s co-defendants is answered in Coulter v. State, 438 So.2d 336 (Ala.Cr.App.1982), aff'd, 438 So.2d 352 (Ala.1983)). In that case, we affirmed the Court of Criminal Appeals holding the disproportionality question involving consideration of co-defendant sentences is something to be addressed by the appellate courts instead of at the trial level. Accord, Miller v. Florida, 459 U.S. 1158 , 103 S.Ct. 802 , 74 L.Ed.2d 1005 (1983) (Marshall, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari).1 7 1 Were they [sic], there would be no need for us to make the other inquiries we mandated in Beck.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Gamble“"In the instant case, the aggravating circumstances 'remarkably and exceedingly outweigh the mitigating circumstances. . . .' Dunkins [v. State , 437 So.2d 1349 (Ala.Cr.App. 1983)]. We therefore concur in and affirm the findings of the jury and the trial court that death is the appropriate sentence. 'Indeed, applying the laws of this state and nation to the particular facts of this case, we do not see how any other penalty is justified.' Id. "”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.