Florida v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2023 · most notably Demore District Director San Francisco District of Immigration and Naturalization Service et al. v. Kim (2003), Thornton v. United States (2004)
11 federal appellate · 15 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1257
Relies on Chimel v. California · New York v. Belton · New York v. Quarles · Cox Broadcasting Corp. v. Cohn · Mills v. State of Alabama
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]inal judgments or decrees rendered by the highest court of a State in which a decision could be had . . . where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is specially set up or claimed under the Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the parties did not raise the issue in their briefs on the merits, we must first consider whether we have jurisdiction to decide this case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“finality generally is defined by a judgment of conviction and the imposition of a sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Sharp
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.