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 counsel “need not be expected to anticipate developments in the law which make possible the raising of novel issues”
• holding that counsel “need not be expected to anticipate developments in the law which make possible the raising of novel issues”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Daniel Morris Thomas v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Dept. Of Corrections, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-17· cited 115×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-02· cited 76×
• State v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1993-12-10· cited 44×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-05-17· cited 36×
• McCrae v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-06-18· cited 33×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-11-21· cited 32×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-12-16· cited 26×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-06-03· cited 19×
• Thomas v. Wainwright
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-04-15· cited 18×
• Francois v. Klein
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-01-27· cited 12×
• Arango v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 12×
• Boudreau v. Carlisle
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-09-19· cited 12×
• Thomas v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-07· cited 6×
• Vaught v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-12-08· cited 5×
• Cook v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-01-22· cited 4×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-14· cited 2×
• Messier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-07· cited 1×
• Mack v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-05-24· cited 1×
• Hector Sanchez-Torres v. State of Florida & Hector Sanchez-Torres v. Mark S. Inch, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-03-12
• Hector Sanchez-Torres v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2021-05-13

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 404×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Witt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-07-24· cited 342×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Meeks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-20· cited 104×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-02-11· cited 84×
• Ford v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-14· cited 78×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-07-26· cited 36×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-02-08· cited 36×
• Demps v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-06-24· cited 34×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-11-27· cited 20×
• Goode v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-09· cited 17×