Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2002
1 federal appellate · 3 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 Wynne v. State · Jackson v. State · Taylor v. State · 18 Ga. App. 462 - Griffin v. State · Boyd 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is evidence sufficient to raise a doubt, however slight, upon the question whether the homicide was murder or manslaughter, voluntary or involuntary, it is the duty of the court to charge on all these grades of homicide.” Thomas v. State, 47 Ga. App. 237, 239 ( 170 SE 303 ). The defendant testified that he did not pull the trigger of the weapon (T. pp. 112, 124). In Howell v. State, 123 Ga. App. 306, 307 ( 180 SE2d 599 ), the court in reversing the defendant’s conviction of voluntary manslaughter held:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson 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.