730 So. 2d 667 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2012
18 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 Clark v. State · 448 So. 2d 1013 - State v. Rhoden · 488 So. 2d 62 - Williams v. State · Ivory v. State · 579 So. 2d 80 - McKinney 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After the jurors have retired to consider their verdict, if they request additional instructions or to have any testimony read to them they shall be conducted into the courtroom by the officer who has them in charge and the court may give them the additional instructions or may order the testimony read to them. The instructions shall be given and the testimony read only after notice to the prosecuting attorney and to counsel for the defendant.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is prophylactic in nature and must be invoked by contemporaneous objection at trial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The right to participate, set forth in Ivory , includes the right to place objections on the record as well as the right to make full argument as to why the jury request should or should not be honored.... ‘Notice is not dispositive. The failure to respond in open court is alone sufficient to find error.’”
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.