759 So. 2d 650 - Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 774 So. 2d 637 - Rutherford v. Moore (2000), Sochor v. State (2004)
3 federal appellate · 141 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Kyles v. Whitley · Lockett v. Ohio
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“first, whether the alleged omissions are of such magnitude as to constitute a serious error or substantial deficiency falling measurably outside the range of professionally acceptable performance and, second, whether the deficiency in performance compromised the appellate process to such a degree as to undermine confidence in the correctness of the result.”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. State · Henry v. State“trial counsel's failure to object to standard jury instructions that have not been invalidated by this Court does not render counsel's performance deficient.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“invitation to utilize the writ of habeas as a vehicle for the reargument of issues which have been raised and ruled on by this Court”
4 later decisions 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.