Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2015
11 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Donnelly v. United States · Gullett v. States · Partlow v. State · Taggart 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Hearsay Exceptions. The following are not excluded by the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness. (3) A statement which was at the time of its making so far contrary to the declarant's pecuniary or proprietary interest, or so far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability, or to render invalid a claim by the declarant against another, that a reasonable person in the de-clarant's position would not have made the statement unless believing it to be true.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“selves to assure a defendant his due process right to present evidence in his favor while protecting the trial court’s ability to exclude evidence that is irrelevant or insufficiently trustworthy.” Id. at 226 . The Indiana Rules of Evidence have since been adopted and superseded decisions such as Thomas . The Indiana rule differs in some respects from its federal counterpart. Notably the federal rule adopted in Thomas deems the statement inadmissible”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Summers v. State · Jervis v. State“"[the defendant is given the opportunity to introduce all evidence in his favor. Simultaneously, the trial judge retains discretion to keep from the trier of fact those statements that do not actually present sufficient assurances that the statement was, in fact, made. The trier of fact retains the traditional role of assessing the believability of each statement and deciphering the truth."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bardonner v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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