Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Ex Parte Duffy (1980), Fowlkes v. State (1988)
51 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Gagnon v. Scarpelli
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing said here should be construed to grant a defendant the right to appointed counsel of his choice. The accused’s right to select his own counsel cannot be insisted upon or manipulated so as to obstruct the orderly procedure in the Courts or to interfere with the fair administration of justice ... the defendant must accept counsel assigned by the Court unless he effectively waives right to counsel in order to represent himself, ... or can show adequate cause for appointment of a different attorney.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jackson v. State“not to project yourself into the trial in any manner, including the making of objections.”
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.