State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 786 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 793 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably In re Adoption of Holcomb (1985), 85 Ohio App. 3d 623 - State v. Claytor (1993)
5 federal appellate · 786 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 State v. Dehass · 148 Ohio St. 473 - State v. Petro · State v. Black · 18 Ohio St. 2d 13 - State v. Staten · State v. Jackson
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 793 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The weight to be given the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses concerning the establishment of the defense of insanity in a criminal proceeding are primarily for the trier of the facts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“the weight to be given the evidence and credibility of the witnesses are primarily for the trier of facts,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is emphasized that an appellate court may not reverse the judgment of conviction unless reasonable minds could not fail to find reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt. It is fundamental that the weight to be given the evidence and credibility of the witnesses are primarily for the trier of facts. * * * ””
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.