Thornton v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waller v. Georgia · 570 So. 2d 1301 - Florida Bar Re: Amendments to Rules Regulating the Florida Bar-Chapter 6 (Legal Specialization & Education Programs) · 344 So. 2d 244 - Wheeler v. State · 566 So. 2d 6 - Pritchett 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall clear the courtroom of all persons except parties to the cause and their immediate families or guardians, attorneys and their secretaries, officers of the court, jurors, newspaper reporters or broadcasters, court reporters, and, at the request of the victim, victim or witness advocates designated by the state attorney’s office.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts 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.