State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 district · 121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably State v. Ingenito (1981), State v. Howard (1988)
2 district · 121 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Santobello v. New York · State v. Meadows · State v. Taylor · The People v. Harrison · Capitol Meats, Inc. v. United States
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent that these procedures have as one of their purposes to assure a defendant that in entering into a plea bargain he will not thereby become entrapped. It is equally as important to assure a defendant that after the agreement has received final judicial sanction, it will be carried out according to its terms. Only if it is generally believed that performance on the part of the State will not disappoint a defendant’s reasonable expectations will plea bargaining become and remain a truly effective device in criminal administration. Aside from this pragmatic necessity, essential fairness dictates the same result.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f plea bargaining is to fulfill its intended purpose, it must be conducted fairly on both sides and the results must not disappoint the reasonable expectations of either.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“zeal displayed [by criminal defense counsel] must not transcend the bounds imposed by law or by those ethical standards and professional proprieties which govern the conduct of all members of the bar at all times.”
2 later decisions 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.