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← 447 SO2D 1053 - State v. Thomas

State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

72
cited by 72 later decisions
2
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Caston (1985), 651 So. 2d 387 - State v. Toney (1995)

1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions

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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 Jackson v. Virginia · Solem v. Helm · State v. Sepulvado · 384 So. 2d 355 - State v. Bonanno · 398 So. 2d 1049 - State v. Jones

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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime”
    21 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Santee · State v. Darby
  2. “absent violence or intimidation, the victim could have prevented the taking.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 607 So. 2d 689 - State v. Russell · 986 So. 2d 863 - State v. Hall
  3. “[v]ictims Barber and Dawson were clearly intimidated: first, by defendant's badge; second, by his threat of trouble; and third, by his general demeanor and aura of authority. Thomas took their money under the guise of searching the vehicle for drugs, an action which might be expected of a police officer. The jury reasonably concluded that defendant made the stop, conducted the search, and misappropriated the money by use of intimidation. The face-to-face confrontation involved the increased risk of bodily harm which distinguishes robbery from theft.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 607 So. 2d 689 - State v. Russell

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.