Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 1984 · most notably Cobern v. State (1962), Commonwealth v. Novicki (1949)
50 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 James v. State · Shinn v. State · Clary v. State · Huber v. State · Chappell 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If force is relied on in proof of the charge, it must be the force by which another is deprived of, and the offender gains, the possession.” ( 91 Ala. 36 , 9 So. 82 )”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(W)e hold, . . . that violence or putting in fear, to constitute the essential factor in the crime of robbery, must precede, or be concomitant with, the taking of the property from the possession of the owner; and that no violence, no excitation of fear, resorted to merely for the purpose of keeping a possession already acquired, or of escaping after the possession has been acquired, will supply the element of force which is an essential ingredient of this offense."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.