Wallace v. Thornton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 799 So. 2d 1 - Whitten v. Cox (2000), 829 So. 2d 29 - Kolberg v. State (2002)
24 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 Johnson v. Brown · 611 So. 2d 942 - Rodgers v. Pascagoula Public School Dist. · 606 So. 2d 114 - Odom v. Roberts · Hill v. Dunaway · 615 So. 2d 580 - Burton by Bradford v. Barnett
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur concern is whether the actions of... [the officers] in detaining ... [the plaintiff] were objectively reasonable in their nature, purpose, extent and duration. We make this inquiry by reference to the totality of the circumstances reasonably apparent to persons situated as were ... [the officers] at the time.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Therefore, defects in specific instructions do not require reversal `where all instructions taken as a whole fairlyalthough not perfectlyannounce the applicable primary rules of law.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining the propriety of submitting the issue of punitive damages to the jury, the trial court decides whether, under the totality of the circumstances and viewing the defendant's conduct in the aggregate, a reasonable, hypothetical trier of fact could find either malice or gross neglect/reckless disregard.”
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.