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Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
March 2016
most recently cited

35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gardner v. State (1987), Elkins v. State (1983)

35 state decisions

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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 Berger v. United States · Alejandro v. State · McKenzie v. State · Duffy v. State · Tarpley 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “I'll tell you something else you didn't hear. You didn't hear one single solitary bit of contrition on the part of this defendant from his witnesses nor his attorney. He had his wife and sister up there. They didn't tell you, `Boy, he's sorry about this. He's sorry and he wants to do right. He just wishes he hadn't have done it.' He just wishes he hadn't have done it.' You didn't hear that. You didn't hear one single bit of that and I guarantee you if he was sorry for what he had done — and I submit he is not in the least bit sorry — you would've heard about it from his witnesses.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Borns v. State · Moore v. State
  2. “a state of mind— and a highly personal one at that. Indicia of contriteness is necessarily generated after an offense by the one who is sorrowful for what he has done. That one is contrite about it must be communicated in order for others to know.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Davis v. State · Dickinson v. State
  3. “sincere sorrow for sin, wrongdoing or offense”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Renteria 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.