Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mills v. Maryland · Commonwealth v. Pursell · Commonwealth v. Thomas · Commonwealth v. Banks · Commonwealth v. Morris
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Claim XX — The trial court erred in permitting testimony during the guilt phase regarding torture of the victim; 3 Claim XXI- — Trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the testimony of the Commonwealth’s hair expert; Claim XXII — The trial court erred at the penalty phase in permitting two police officers to testify to the inflammatory details of Thomas’s prior convictions. 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.