374 So. 2d 508 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2010 · most notably Rolling v. State (1997), Thomas v. Wainwright (1985)
1 federal appellate · 31 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Irvin v. Dowd · Murphy v. Florida · 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · 90 So. 2d 629 - Davis 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3.191(a)(1) Custody. For purposes of this Rule, a person is taken into custody, (i) when the person is arrested as a result of the conduct or criminal episode which gave rise to the crime charged or (ii) when the person is served with a notice to appear in lieu of physical arrest, (emphasis added) ISSUE: In the case at bar, does selling alcohol on September 15th without a license and possession of alcohol with intent to sell without a license on September 17th constitute “one criminal episode” for purposes of speedy trial, Rule 3.191(2)(1)? DECISION: Yes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he spirit of the Speedy Trial Rule would not condone the withholding of some charges and an arrest on others so as to effectively extend the time periods of the rule where there is ample evidence to support probable cause as to all charges... .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“evidence that a substantial number of the veniremen had lived in fear during a defendant's `reign of terror.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rolling v. State
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.