State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2010
6 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 Day Land & Cattle Co. v. State · State v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. · Cramer v. Sheppard · Pennsylvania Dental Ass'n v. Commonwealth Insurance Department · State v. Walker
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[This is a]n action by the State, represented by the Attorney General, against a state agency, also represented by the Attorney General. In effect the State has sued itself, the Attorney General has argued against himself, and each has both won and lost”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Brabson
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.