Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 184th Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Bourjaily v. United States · Pope v. Nebraska · Daniels 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[fjor the purposes of a limited Terry search by armed police officers, we hold that a suspicion that a pen or pencil is in a detainee’s pocket does not constitute a reasonable suspicion that a weapon is being concealed. Accordingly, we hold the removal of the object, which [the] Officer [ ] thought was a pen or pencil, from appellant’s pocket, constituted an illegal search without probable cause.”
1 later decision 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.