838 So. 2d 535 - Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2021
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · 748 So. 2d 1028 - Stephens v. State · 648 So. 2d 85 - Jackson v. State · 759 So. 2d 650 - Thompson v. State · 702 So. 2d 1250 - Blanco 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although our review of the record shows that several of the prosecutor's comments made during closing argument were improper, we conclude that the circuit court did not err in rejecting Thomas's ineffectiveness claim in this regard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miller v. State“[I]t is this Court's job to review a circuit court's ruling on a rule 3.850 claim, not to decide the merits of that claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this waiver violate[d] general constitutional principles and contravene[d] public policy.”
1 later decision 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.