Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably McFarland v. State (1996), Wyatt v. State (2000)
76 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[E]vidence is material only if there is a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Cook v. State · Taylor v. State“Favorable evidence is any evidence that “if disclosed and used effectively, it may make the difference between conviction and acquittal.” Favorable evidence includes both exculpatory and impeachment evidence _ Exculpatory testimony is “[testimony] or other evidence which tends to justify, excuse or clear the defendant from alleged fault or guilt.” Impeachment evidence is that which is offered “... to dispute, disparage, deny, or contradict. ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Favorable evidence is any evidence that, if disclosed and used effectively, may make a difference between conviction and acquittal and includes both exculpatory and impeachment evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Carty · Ex parte Lalonde
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.