State v. Thomas

How courts have described this case

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

• ordering post-conviction DNA testing where state’s evidence against defendant was “not strong”
• reversing order denying motion for DNA testing and stating that if the DNA test results indicated that the defendant was not the assailant, the trial court had the option of either conducting a hearing on the evidence or ordering a new trial
• dictum that state may have an obligation to test evidence for DNA patterns
• also discussing postconviction requests for DNA testing
• also discussing postconviction requests for DNA testing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Morton
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1998-07-30· cited 222×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-07-23· cited 107×
• State v. Hammond
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-02-25· cited 100×
• State v. Williams
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-08-05· cited 39×
• State v. Behn
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2005-03-07· cited 38×
• Commonwealth v. Brison
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-12-10· cited 24×
• Riofta v. State
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-08-22· cited 22×
• State v. Riofta
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2006-08-22· cited 22×
• State v. Cann
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2001-07-06· cited 20×
• State v. Velez
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2000-03-13· cited 20×
• Sewell v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-05-26· cited 19×
• State v. Reldan
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2004-12-07· cited 15×
• Cherrix v. Braxton
  E.D. Virginia· 2000-02-28· cited 15×
• Dowdell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2002-06-28· cited 14×
• Harris v. Peridot Chem.(NJ), Inc.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1998-06-22· cited 11×
• State v. Halsey
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2000-04-11· cited 10×
• State v. White
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1992-11-17· cited 10×
• State v. Thomas
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-10-13· cited 5×
• Jimenez v. New Jersey
  D. New Jersey· 2003-02-20· cited 4×
• State v. Pavich
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2008-10-10· cited 2×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• State v. MacOn
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1971-01-25· cited 857×
• State v. Schwartz
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-11-03· cited 141×
• People v. Castro
  New York Supreme Court· 1989-08-14· cited 137×
• State v. Funicello
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1972-01-17· cited 99×
• State v. Harper
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1974-05-15· cited 99×
• Andrews v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-10-20· cited 97×
• State v. R.G.D.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-06-29· cited 90×
• People v. Wesley
  New York County Courts· 1988-07-15· cited 80×
• State v. Mingo
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1978-07-26· cited 60×
• Cobey v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-29· cited 53×
• United States v. Jakobetz
  D. Vermont· 1990-09-20· cited 28×
• State v. Manning
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1989-06-21· cited 20×
• State v. Green
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1969-11-17· cited 20×
• Kennedy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-01-27· cited 11×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1966-03-07· cited 7×
• State v. Stockling
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1978-07-03· cited 7×