State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
305 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 306 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Holmes v. South Carolina (2006), 154 Wash. 2d 118 - State v. Hughes (2005)
305 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Bagley · Ohio v. Roberts
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 306 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“instruction states (in relevant part): To convict the defendant of the crime of telephone harassment as charged in Count I of the Information, each of the following elements of the crime must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. (1) That on or about June 24, 2006, the defendant made a telephone call to Anna Sloan and/or Kandice Schulte; (2) That the defendant made that telephone call with the intent to harass, intimidate, torment or embarrass Anna Sloan; (3) That during the call, the defendant communicated a”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sloan · State v. Sloan“allow a defendant to be sentenced to death without a showing that he or she personally caused the victim's death or was a major participant in the homicidal acts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas · State v. Whitaker“`admits the truth of the State's evidence' and all reasonable inferences.”
4 later decisions 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.