Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2009
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 Lagenour v. State · Gilmore v. State · Turpin v. State · Pearson v. State · Duncan 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“slight probative value was clearly outweighed by the prejudicial nature of such evidence in embarrassing the victim and subjecting her to public denigration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodford v. State“specific instance of sexual activity [which] shows that some person other than the defendant committed the act upon which the prosecution is founded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kielblock v. State“to shield victims of sex crimes from a general inquiry into their past sexual conduct and to keep these victims from feeling that they are on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barnes v. Barnes
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.