Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that eye contact with an officer was not sufficient justification for a stop
• motion to sever prosecution of defendant and co-defendant should have been granted where there was a conflict in defenses and defendant elected not to testify whereas co-defendant took the witness stand to testify
• merely stopping car “to see if it was stolen” is illegal

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• McChesney v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1999-10-20· cited 75×
• Coladonato v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-07-14· cited 52×
• Commonwealth v. Riley
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-02-13· cited 42×
• Stanley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-02-25· cited 24×
• Vollmer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-09-29· cited 24×
• Currens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-10-04· cited 23×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-12-19· cited 23×
• Manning v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-02-14· cited 23×
• Biscardi v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-04-08· cited 21×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-09-17· cited 13×
• State v. Cobbs
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-02-02· cited 11×
• Pena v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-29· cited 10×
• Robison v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 7×
• Sanchez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-08-31· cited 7×
• Dean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-05· cited 6×
• Andrews v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-06-12· cited 6×
• Diggs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-27· cited 6×
• Mattier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-10-04· cited 5×
• Schneider v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-12-20· cited 4×
• Horton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-09-25· cited 4×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Frank v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-05-23· cited 141×
• Riddlehoover v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-05-09· cited 11×