Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Every man, however guilty, has a right to shun an illegal arrest by flight. The exercise of this right should not, and would not, subject him to be arrested as a fugitive.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Perdue v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1910-10-18· cited 93×
• State v. Rousseau
  Washington Supreme Court· 1952-02-28· cited 57×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1905-11-20· cited 50×
• Howell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1926-03-10· cited 44×
• Piedmont Hotel Co. v. Henderson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1911-09-11· cited 44×
• Willie C. Collins v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1961-03-31· cited 33×
• Graham v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1915-05-12· cited 32×
• Humphrey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-03-08· cited 27×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-06-05· cited 21×
• Franklin v. Amerson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-10-31· cited 19×
• Vlass v. McCrary
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1939-10-12· cited 19×
• Delegal v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-01-25· cited 18×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1907-11-25· cited 18×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1908-11-10· cited 17×
• Glenn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2020-10-05· cited 16×
• Paramore v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1925-09-29· cited 14×
• Waters v. National Woolen Mills
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-07-17· cited 13×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-09-05· cited 11×
• Giddens v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-08-17· cited 11×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1950-10-10· cited 10×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1860-01-15· cited 39×
• Rafferty v. People
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1873-09-15· cited 27×
• Harrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1885-11-17· cited 9×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1851-03-15· cited 3×