Thorp v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2015
13 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 515 So. 2d 748 - Shull v. Dugger · Joyner v. State · 446 So. 2d 97 - Mora v. City of Fort Lauderdale · 118 So. 2d 664 - Vocelle v. Knight Brothers Paper Company · 468 So. 2d 1100 - Hunt 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The theory of giving the criminal an opportunity to reform which requires that the conviction of the prior crime predate the commission of the subject offense before it can be considered in sentencing under a recidivist statute, Joyner v. State, 158 Fla. 806 , 30 So.2d 304 (1947), is not pertinent to sentencing under the guidelines. The use of the guidelines presupposes that all pertinent information concerning the defendant has been considered in determining the proper length of his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The guidelines contemplate substantial uniformity in sentencing. Departure sentences are the exceptions to the norm. The guidelines schedules are based upon relevant information concerning the nature of the offender's crime and his prior record. There is little reason why prior record should not include all past crimes for which convictions have been obtained before sentencing. To hold otherwise would encourage needless departures predicated upon unscored convictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any past criminal conduct on the part of the offender, resulting in conviction, prior to the commission of the primary offense.”
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.