State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 1988 · most notably State v. McCreary (1966), State v. Ashker (1987)
2 district · 33 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 77 Cal. App. 279 - People v. Egan · 68 Cal. App. 308 - In Re Colford · 136 Cal. App. 201 - People v. Stratton · 83 Cal. App. 34 - People v. Tognola · State v. Rasch
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.
“The established rule in this state is that to warrant conviction upon circumstantial evidence alone, such facts and circumstances must be shown as are consistent with each other and with guilt of the party charged, and such as cannot by any reasonable theory be true and the party charged be innocent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ashker · State v. McCreary“"However, the last phrase of this rule does not mean that the evidence must be such as to exclude every possible hypothesis of innocence. Rather, it requires only the exclusion of reasonable hypotheses of innocence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rober
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.