421 So. 2d 160 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently March 2006
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Wingo v. Wedding · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · Pesce v. United States · Spinkellink v. Wainwright
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At the hearing in the court below it was established that the difficulty between appellant and his lawyer was due to appellant’s refusal to communicate with tire lawyer. The court ruled that this constitutes no ground for holding that there was a denial of effective assistance of counsel. ... A defendant must not be allowed to refuse to cooperate with his attorney and then attempt to create an issue of ineffective counsel on the basis of his refusal to cooperate.” 421 So. 2d at 164 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ferguson“a defendant must not be allowed to refuse to cooperate with his attorney and then attempt to create an issue of ineffective counsel on the basis of his refusal to cooperate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.