531 So. 2d 708 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

cited by 56 later decisions

states following

December 2018

most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 654 So. 2d 552 - State v. Gray (1995), 604 So. 2d 471 - Green v. State (1992)

2 federal appellate · 52 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 383 So. 2d 1186 - Beugnet v. Beugnet · Culberson v. Mississippi · Florida Bar Re Amendment to Article XI, Florida Bar Integration Rule (Rules of Discipline) · Inanc v. Schreckengost · 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“not merely that the accused intended to commit a burglary or trespass while those tools were in his possession, but that the accused actually intended to use those tools to perpetrate the crime.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Karp v. State · Calliar v. State
“[T]he specific intent to commit a burglary or trespass using tools, instruments or machines in the defendant's possession or control exists when he or she engages in or causes some overt act toward the commission of the burglary or trespass, which goes beyond merely thinking or talking about it. The overt act necessary to prove intent need not be limited to the actual use of an item in committing the trespass or burglary, but need only manifest the specific criminal intent.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Karp v. State · 588 So. 2d 654 - Smith v. State
“[i]n effect,... criminalizes an attempt to commit a burglary or trespass, which is discerned through the possession of tools or devices coupled with the defendant's intent to use those tools in the commission of the crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Walker · 536 So. 2d 285 - Ghent 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.