528 So. 2d 1274 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2013
5 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 3 Va. App. 599 - Roanoke Memorial Hospitals v. Kenley · 519 So. 2d 611 - Atwaters v. State · 415 So. 2d 109 - Allied Fidelity Ins. Co. v. State · 58 Cal. App. 3d 406 - Cuevas v. Superior Court · State v. Mesa
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ought should be reserved for expressions of necessity, duty or obligation; should, the slightly weaker word, expresses mere appropriateness, suitability or fittingness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he word `should' in the rule which the plaintiff invokes is directory. Being directory, a deviation is excusable under proper circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the weaker companion to the obligatory `ought.'”
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.