State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2024 · most notably California v. Ramos (1983), State v. Mallett (1987)
73 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 Barker v. Wingo · Faretta v. California · Gregg v. Georgia · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Jurek v. Texas
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
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2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1. A person commits the crime of resisting or interfering with arrest if, knowing that a law enforcement officer is making an arrest, for the purpose of preventing the officer from effecting the arrest, he: (1) Resists the arrest of himself by using or threatening the use of violence or physical force or by fleeing from such officer; or [[Image here]] 2. This section applies to arrests with or without warrants and to arrests for any crime or ordinance violation. 3. It is no defense to a prosecution under subsection 1 of this section that the law enforcement officer was acting unlawfully in making the arrest.... 4. Resisting, by means other than flight, or interfering with an arrest for a felony is a class D felony; otherwise, resisting or interfering with arrest is a class A misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Winkelmann“A police officer ... may use such means or force as is reasonably necessary in the circumstance to accomplish an arrest. ... Unless a plaintiff can show that unnecessary force was used, courts will protect the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.