Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
November 1975
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Platt v. State · McKnight v. State · Adame v. State · Carso v. State
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘To warrant an inference or presumption of guilt from the circumstance alone of possession, such possession must be personal, must be recent, must be unexplained, and must involve a distinct and conscious assertion of property by the defendant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crain v. State
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.