404 So. 2d 766 - Toombs v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2016
8 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 Dennis v. California · 396 So. 2d 1107 - Villery v. Florida Parole & Probation Com'n · 327 So. 2d 18 - State v. Jones · 360 So. 2d 380 - State v. Holmes · Smith 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear from the transcript of sentencing that when the trial court imposed this sentence upon Toombs, it was aware that Toombs had served three years in prison and fully intended that Toombs serve an additional year for having violated his probation.... It is apparent that had the trial court imposed a four-year prison sentence on Toombs (who could have been sentenced, under the original offense charged, to up to fifteen years in prison when his probation was revoked) and credited Toombs with the three years served, it would have accomplished its sentencing goal. Since it was so clearly the trial court’s intent that Toombs serve an additional year in prison, and since the trial court was empowered to impose a sentence of sufficient length after crediting the time served to carry out that intent, ... we reject Toombs’ argument that the trial court’s technical error results in setting Toombs free. Id. at 768 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gonzalez v. State“[the] oral pronouncement, although not reflected in the written sentence order, controls.”
1 later decision 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.