487 So. 2d 1043 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

cited by 58 later decisions

states following

May 2019

most recently cited

58 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 186 So. 3d 989 - Ronald Williams v. State of Florida (2016), 491 So. 2d 1120 - Murray v. State (1986)

58 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 438 So. 2d 1 - Palmer v. State · 476 So. 2d 165 - State v. Carney · 467 So. 2d 994 - Florida Bar v. Napier · 467 So. 2d 996 - Wilson v. State · 472 So. 2d 1221 - Thomas 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[w]e do not prohibit the imposition of multiple concurrent three-year minimum mandatory sentences upon conviction of separate offenses included under subsection 775.087(2), nor do we prohibit consecutive mandatory minimum sentences for offenses arising from separate incidents occurring at separate times and places.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 639 So. 2d 992 - Sprow v. State · 603 So. 2d 558 - Newton v. State
“distinct offenses involving two separate and distinct victims. (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 488 So. 2d 543 - Aikens v. State · 596 So. 2d 740 - Segarra v. State
“In this cause, Wilson pled guilty to sexual battery with a firearm and kidnapping with a firearm. The factual basis for the plea reflects that Wilson, armed with a gun, confronted his victim as she attempted to enter her apartment, forced her into his car, drove a short distance, and raped her. The trial court sentenced Wilson to two consecutive 30-year sentences with consecutive three-year mandatory minimum sentences for each offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 605 So. 2d 978 - Cox 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.