State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Richmond v. State (1976), State v. Dodson (1977)
30 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Marion · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Ross v. United States · 9 Cal. 3d 662 - People v. Uhlemann
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the magistrate discharges the accused after the preliminary examination, the prosecuting attorney is without authority to file an information for the offense, but a discharge . . . does not bar a prosecution of the alleged offense by indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“since the state cannot appeal a dismissal at a preliminary hearing, it would frustrate public policy to deny the state a further opportunity to prosecute”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Noline
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.