Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 1986
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · V. P. Serodino, Inc. v. United States · Ainsworth v. State · Perryman 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A trial court is only required to sua sponte hold a competency hearing when sufficient facts or circumstances are brought to the court’s attention, from any source, that create a reasonable doubt as to the competency of the appellant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ferguson 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.