State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably State v. Jackson (Slip Opinion) (2014), In Re Marriage of Littlefield (1997)
63 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Faretta v. California · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Jones v. Barnes · Rock v. Arkansas
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s with the right to self-representation, the right not to testify, and the right to confront witnesses, the judge may assume a knowing waiver of the right from the defendant's conduct. The conduct of not taking the stand may be interpreted as a valid waiver of the right to testify.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant must ... produce more than a bare assertion that the right [to testify] was violated; the defendant must present substantial, factual evidence in order to merit an evidentiary hearing or other action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robinson“has its source in the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause, in the compulsory process clause of the Sixth Amendment, and as a necessary corollary to the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Williams
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.