619 So. 2d 261 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably 759 So. 2d 650 - Thompson v. State (2000), 645 So. 2d 377 - Spencer v. State (1994)
1 federal appellate · 43 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Proffitt v. Florida · 491 So. 2d 1129 - State v. DiGuilio · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The use of prior testimony is allowed where (1) the testimony was taken in the course of a judicial proceeding; (2) the party against whom the evidence is being offered was a party in the former proceeding; (3) the issues in the prior case are similar to those in the case at hand; and (4) a substantial reason is shown why the original witness is not available.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“given the testimony of the eyewitness, the medical examiner, and the appellant himself, and the other photographs admitted into evidence”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the improper use of the `cold, calculated and premeditated' aggravating factor was harmless error under the circumstances of this case.”
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.