State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
170 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State Ex Rel. E.R. (2001), State v. Nielsen (2014)
170 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 Chimel v. California · Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco · See v. City of Seattle · Olmstead v. United States · Harris v. United States
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“requires not just bald citation to authority but development of that authority and reasoned analysis based on that authority”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Timmerman · State v. Green“when the overall analysis of the issue is so lacking as to shift the burden of research and argument to the reviewing court.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“this court is not a depository in which the appealing party may dump the burden of argument and research.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Clopten · State v. Green
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.