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← 53 KANAPP2D 15 - State v. Thomas

State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · Almendarez-Torres v. United States · Shepard v. United States · Duncan v. State of Louisiana

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.

  1. “..., but rather an application of the constitutional rule announced in Apprendi and clarified by Descamps . [Citations omitted.]'”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Apprendi was the basis for the ultimate holding in Dickey. Descamps provided a means by which to determine whether certain sentencing determinations violated Apprendi, and Dickey applied that framework to Kansas criminal history determinations. [Citations omitted.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he new constitutional sentencing rule established by Apprendi must be applied here and in all cases pending on direct appeal or which are not yet final or which arose after June 26, 2000.”
    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.