611 So. 2d 416 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 791 So. 2d 979 - Jackson v. State (2000), Lewis v. State (2007)
25 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Johnson v. United States · Musser v. States · Morgan County Commission v. Powell · 548 So. 2d 590 - Powell 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]trikes based on previous criminal charges, prosecution, or convictions of the veniremember or a family member of the veniremember are not racially discriminatory....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Adverse rulings during the course of the proceedings are not by themselves sufficient to establish bias and prejudice.' Hartman v. Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama , 436 So.2d 837 , 841 (Ala. 1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A mere accusation of bias, unsupported by fact, does not require disqualification of a judge. Prejudice on the part of the judge is not presumed, and the burden is on the moving party to prove that the judge is biased."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gipson 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.