584 So. 2d 1022 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

cited by 15 later decisions

states following

August 2015

most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2015

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

Relies on Florida Bar v. Hawkins · 536 So. 2d 240 - In re Florida Bar · 537 So. 2d 564 - Magaw v. State · State v. Lewis · 49 Wis. 2d 105 - Edwards 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A person commits theft if he or she knowingly obtains or uses, or endeavors to obtain or to use, the property of another with intent to, either temporarily or permanently: (a) Deprive the other person of a right to the property or a benefit from the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 892 So. 2d 1135 - Nooe v. State
“"Obtains or uses" means any manner of: .... [1] [c]onduct previously known as stealing; larceny; purloining; abstracting; embezzlement, misapplication; misappropriation; conversion; or obtaining money or property by false pretenses, fraud, or deception....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 892 So. 2d 1135 - Nooe v. State
“Where it clearly appears that the taking of property was consistent with honest conduct, as where the taker honestly believes that he or she has a right to property, the taker cannot be convicted of theft, even though the taker may have been mistaken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 751 So. 2d 685 - Durie 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.