People v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “the charge condemned in Sandstrom has been held by this court [ ] to be erroneous” for more than a century
• noting that, in many instances, constitutional rights are waived if not preserved
• stating that one must object to charge or objection is waived
• stating general rule that objection at trial is required to preserve issue for appeal
• applying the contemporaneous objection rule to alleged Sandstrom errors
• applying the contemporaneous objection rule to alleged Sandstrom errors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

420 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• People v. Contes
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-09-01· cited 12,727×
• People v. Gray
  New York Court of Appeals· 1995-05-11· cited 3,217×
• People v. Harris
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-12-15· cited 1,537×
• People v. Galloway
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-11-24· cited 1,342×
• People v. Udzinski
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-04-17· cited 1,127×
• Connecticut v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 606×
• People v. Tucker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-12-22· cited 550×
• People v. Kelly
  New York Court of Appeals· 2005-06-29· cited 313×
• People v. Harris
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-11-16· cited 275×
• Vito Matarese v. Eugene Lefevre, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility, and Robert Abrams, Attorney General, State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1986-09-12· cited 191×
• People v. Lancaster
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-12-18· cited 186×
• Otis Glenn, A/K/A Sammy McBride v. George Bartlett, Superintendent of Elmira Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1996-10-24· cited 179×
• People v. Getch
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-06-05· cited 156×
• People v. Autry
  New York Court of Appeals· 1990-02-13· cited 134×
• People v. Iannelli
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-12-19· cited 123×
• People v. Jones
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1981-05-26· cited 103×
• People v. Harris
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-01-22· cited 89×
• People v. McLean
  New York Court of Appeals· 2010-06-10· cited 85×
• People v. Felix
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-02-15· cited 83×
• People v. Lipton
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-11-23· cited 80×

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• People v. Crimmins
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-02-25· cited 6,387×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Hamling v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1974-10-15· cited 2,897×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Henderson v. Kibbe
  Supreme Court· 1977-05-16· cited 1,629×
• Hankerson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 586×
• People v. Patterson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-04-01· cited 442×
• People v. Benzinger
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-12-20· cited 347×
• People v. Tutt
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-04-01· cited 215×
• People v. Michael
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-07-10· cited 212×
• People v. Kibbe
  New York Court of Appeals· 1974-11-27· cited 186×
• Stokes v. . People of the State of N.Y.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1873-06-10· cited 180×
• People v. Getch
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-06-05· cited 156×
• People v. Felder
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-06-07· cited 145×
• People v. Leyva
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-12-04· cited 123×
• People v. Glass
  New York Court of Appeals· 1977-12-19· cited 121×
• People v. Robinson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-02-20· cited 119×