Thom v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2015
17 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. Anderson · State v. Devino · Best v. State · Justice v. State · Noetzelmann 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant has the right to have instructions on his theory of the case or his theory of defense presented to the jury if the instructions sufficiently inform the jury of the theory of defense and if competent evidence exists which supports the law expressed in the instructions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“INSTRUCTION NO. 1 It is incumbent upon the prosecution to establish all the material allegations of the Information beyond a reasonable doubt. The material allegations of the Information as here used are as follows: “[T]hat WILLIAM BAIER * * * On or about the 9th day of August, 1993, at the County of Laramie, State of Wyoming, * * * did unlawfully and feloniously, intentionally and knowingly cause bodily injury to Joe Morelli with a fork, deadly weapon, contrary to W.S. § 6-2-502(a)(ii), 1977 Republished Edition.” Also, the issue of self-defense has been presented. If the allegations of the Information are established in your minds beyond a reasonable doubt and if you are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was not acting in self-defense, then the prosecution has established beyond a reasonable doubt all of the guilt of the defendant. It is not meant that it is incumbent upon the prosecution to prove every fact surrounding such testimony beyond a reasonable doubt. All that is incumbent on the prosecution is that all the facts and circumstances taken together should establish the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. If you are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt from all the evidence in the case of the defendant’s guilt, you should find such defendant guilty. INSTRUCTION NO. 2 The necessary elements of the crime of aggravated assault and battery, are: 1. The crime occurred within the county of Laramie on or about the date of August 9, 1993; and 2. Th”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Baier v. State“(a) A person is guilty of aggravated assault and battery if he: ****** (ii) Attempts to cause, or intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon[.] ****** (b) Aggravated assault and battery is a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walter 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.