Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2016
10 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 Yagow v. United States · Spencer v. Brown · Love v. United States · Dudley v. State · Gregory 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fact that Thomas bit Cleora multiple times, coupled with the obvious severity of the injuries to Cleora’s left eye, as reflected in photographs taken shortly after the incident, belie Thomas’s claim that he did not intend to inflict serious injury during the attack. The evidence was sufficient to permit a reasonable inference that Thomas possessed the requisite mens rea for the offense of aggravated battery at the time of the occurrence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a party may not submit matters to and await rulings by a special judge before objecting to the special judge's presence in the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Woodward v. Norton“or the inception or general character of the cause or external source;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nash 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.