State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently January 2007
20 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 448 So. 2d 257 - State v. Wardlow · 351 So. 2d 1178 - State v. Lindsey · State v. Sullivan
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the law in effect at the time of the commission of the offense is determinative of the penalty which the convicted accused must suffer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“correct[ed] the sentence to impose the mandated additional sentence of two years at hard labor, without benefit of parole, probation, suspension of sentence or credit for good time, and to run consecutively to the sentence imposed by the trial court for the violation of La.R.S. 14:31.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Delcambre“without benefit of probation or suspension of 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.