372 So. 2d 385 - Thigpen v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 1994 · most notably Sumner v. Shuman (1987), 479 So. 2d 76 - Ex Parte Grayson (1985)
22 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 Furman v. Georgia · Pope v. Nebraska · Dothard v. Rawlinson · Johnson v. Williams · Tillis v. State
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been repeatedly held that a denial of funds to pay defense experts for investigations and the assistance of experts does not amount to a deprivation of constitutional rights.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““... In the absence of fraud, matters which were known at the time, or which could have been discovered by exercising due diligence, cannot be raised on a petition for writ of error coram nobis.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.