Thomas v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
687 F.2d 235 · 1982
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably United States v. Baptista-Rodriguez (1994), Polys v. Trans-Colorado Airlines, Inc. (1991)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 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 Chapman v. State of California · Rose v. Lundy · Washington v. Texas · Sumner v. Mata · Williams v. Florida
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to inform the court and opposing counsel of the substance of the excluded evidence, enabling them to take appropriate action; and (2) to provide an appellate court with a record allowing it to determine whether the exclusion was erroneous and whether appellant was prejudiced by the exclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“These cases [Powell and Adail\ govern our holding today that petitioner has now exhausted his state court remedies.” We reiterate what we said in our February 17, 1987 memorandum opinion: “Powell, Adail, and Thomas obviously govern this Court’s determination of the exhaustion question which the respondent seeks to raise in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fisher v. Trickey“Nevertheless, even if the trial court’s exclusion of character witnesses were deemed to be constitutional error, it would not affect the result in this case. If there were constitutional error, it would be harmless beyond a rea *382 sonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peeler v. Wyrick
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.