614 So. 2d 468 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Lee v. Ferraro (2002), 655 So. 2d 111 - Reyes v. State (1995)
3 federal appellate · 44 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 United States v. Robinson · Michigan v. · Gustafson v. Florida · 408 So. 2d 1091 - Leonard v. Leonard · 564 So. 2d 480 - Cresswell 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a person is charged with violating a municipal ordinance regulating conduct that is noncriminal in nature, . . . [a] full custodial arrest . . . is unreasonable and a violation of the Fourth Amendment and article I, section 12 of the Florida Constitution.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. L.B.B. v. State · LBB v. State“`cannot forbid what the legislature has expressly licensed, authorized or required, nor may it authorize what the legislature has expressly forbidden.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile a municipality may provide a penalty less severe than that imposed by a state statute, an ordinance penalty may not exceed the penalty imposed by the state. Edwards v. State, 422 So.2d 84 (Fla. 2d DCA 1982)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.