Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1998 · most notably McGuire v. McGuire (1980), Allied-Signal, Inc. v. Wyoming State Board of Equalization (1991)
29 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 Terminal Freight Handling Co. v. Solien · Clay v. State · Lynch v. Household Finance Corp. · State v. Romero · Cutshall v. State
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Repeals by implication are not favored, State v. Cantrell, supra, 186 P.2d at 543 ; but this court has not hesitated to apply this in a proper case, Longacre v. State, Wyo., 448 P.2d 832, 834 ; Blount v. City of Laramie, Wyo., 510 P.2d 294, 296 ; Tucker v. State ex rel. Snow, 35 Wyo. 430 , 251 P. 460, 465 . If the statutes cannot stand together and if they are repugnant by virtue of relating to the same subject and are directed at a distinct offense with the same object, the earlier cannot stand, State v. Cantrell, supra. In Haines v. Territory, 3 Wyo. 167 , 13 P. 8, 11 , the court recognized the rule that a later specific statute controls over a general statute.” Thomas v. State, supra, 562 P.2d at 1290 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Whoever unlawfully kills any human being without malice, express or implied, either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat of passion, or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act, or by any culpable neglect or criminal carelessness, is guilty of manslaughter, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than twenty years.” § 6-58, W.S.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State · Bartlett v. State“culpable neglect or criminal carelessness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. State · Sodergren v. State
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.