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 where an objection was made and trial court’s ruling was treated as conclusive by state and defense counsel, there was no need for further objections when evidence was presented to jury
• standing for the proposition that collateral crime evidence is not admissible to establish opportunity or common scheme unless either is a disputed issue at trial
• “Whether a relevant material fact is in issue is not necessarily established by the defendant’s plea of not guilty (which denies each essential element of the charged offense
• where evidence of appellant's sexual battery of another child 12 years previously was a significant part of the state's case against appellant and was inadmissible as similar fact evidence, the error in admitting that evidence could not be considered harmless
• “If there is no bona fide dispute over a material fact that the similar fact evidence is offered to prove, then the probative value of such evidence necessarily has significantly less importance than its prejudicial effect, and the evidence should be excluded.... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Everett v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-10-14· cited 48×
• Turtle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-09· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-06-11· cited 12×
• Foburg v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-03· cited 11×
• Howard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-04· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-13· cited 9×
• Saffor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-09-15· cited 6×
• Viglione v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-12-12· cited 4×
• State v. O'BRIEN
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-03-02· cited 4×
• Bruce v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-10-01· cited 4×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-06-10· cited 4×
• Vice v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-09· cited 3×
• Rawls v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-09-14· cited 2×
• Judah v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-05-09· cited 2×
• Roberts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-10-25· cited 2×
• Leverett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-07-09· cited 1×
• Goggins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-02-16· cited 1×

Cites

47 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• People v. Haston
  California Supreme Court· 1968-08-19· cited 233×
• Lambright v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 186×
• Heuring v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 147×
• Correll v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-14· cited 104×
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-22· cited 98×
• Hoodless v. Jernigan
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1903-06-15· cited 82×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-17· cited 66×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-07-18· cited 54×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-06-12· cited 53×
• Chenoweth v. Kemp
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-02· cited 52×
• Webb v. Priest
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-10· cited 47×
• Squires v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-03-15· cited 42×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-30· cited 40×
• Cross v. Aby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1908-01-15· cited 30×
• Calloway v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-02-24· cited 26×
• Nat Harrison Associates, Inc. v. Byrd
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-12-15· cited 25×