State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Orhan (1999), State v. Cepeda (1999)
25 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Hernandez v. New York · Delli Paoli v. United States · Rita v. United States
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he evidence of flight in this case tended to show that the defendant believed that what he had done was not merely an act of self-defense, but was something that was considered wrong in the eyes of the law.... [T]he evidence of flight was sufficient to allow the jury to infer consciousness of guilt ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Flight, when unexplained, tends to prove a consciousness of guilt.... Flight is a form of circumstantial evidence.... The probative value of evidence of flight depends upon all the facts and circumstances and is a question of fact for the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[t]he jury could have found that this conduct constituted evidence of flight which tended to show a consciousness of guilt.”
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.