662 So. 2d 1334 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently September 2018
11 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 Collins v. Youngblood · Miller v. Florida · Hopt v. People of the Territory of Utah · 448 So. 2d 1013 - State v. Rhoden · Edler 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) Any decision to impose adult sanctions must be in writing, but is presumed appropriate, and the court is not required to set forth specific findings or enumerate the criteria in this subsection as any basis for its decision to impose adult sanctions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(d) Any decision to impose adult sanctions shall be in writing and in conformity with each of the above criteria. The court shall render a specific finding of fact and the reasons for the decision to impose adult sanctions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no ex post facto violation occurs if the change in the law is merely procedural and `does not increase the punishment, nor change the ingredients of the offence [sic] or the ultimate facts necessary to establish guilt'”
2 later decisions 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.