Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Taylor (1996), State v. Nunley (1996)
2 federal appellate · 61 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 Strickland v. Washington · Day v. State · State v. Wells · Natural Bridge Development Co. v. St. Louis County Water Co. · Toney 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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although a concept of constructive custody can be found in the case law in other contexts, the language of Rule 24.-035 is plain and not couched in terms of constructive custody. We, therefore, hold that the time limitations imposed in Rule 24.035 begin to run when a person under sentence is delivered, physically, into the custody of the Department of Corrections.” Id. at 365 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Johnston v. State · Clamme v. State“Due process concerns permit any litigant to remove a biased judge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Taylor · McFadden v. State“First, the majority of post-conviction claims focus on the effectiveness of the now-convicted defendant's trial counsel. On review, we defer to the trial judge's ability to assess the credibility of the witnesses at the post-conviction motion hearing and reverse that judge's conclusion only if it is clearly erroneous. Yet [the peremptory challenge rule] permits the parties to seek a change of judge without cause, thereby removing the judicial officer best acquainted with the case and its conduct from consideration of claims relating to trial counsel's representation of the convicted defendant. [The peremptory challenge rule], if invoked, thus requires a judge to determine issues of defense counsel's competence, despite that judge's lack of personal experience with or personal observation of the flow of the criminal trial, the demeanor of the trial witnesses, the strength of the state's case, the relative strength of the defense case as presented, the character of the convicting jury, or the intuitive assessment of the quality of trial counsel's representation upon which the standard of review is founded. 6”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Plyler 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.