Thomas v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018 · most notably Springer v. Commonwealth (1999), Stopher v. Commonwealth (2001)
44 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 Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Ross v. Oklahoma · Sanborn v. Commonwealth · Ice v. Commonwealth
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rules specifying the number of peremptory challenges are not mere technicalities, they are substantial rights and are to be fully enforced.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t has always been the law in Kentucky `that prejudice is presumed, and the defendant is entitled to a reversal in those cases where a defendant is forced to exhaust his peremptory challenges against prospective jurors who should have been excused for cause.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“additional jurors [alternates] are called, the number of peremptory challenges allowed each side and each defendant shall be increased by one (1).”
3 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.