Thompson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that battery on a law enforcement officer under section 784.07(2) and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer under section 784.07(3) include knowledge of the officer's status as an essential element
• recognizing “the basic tenet of statutory construction that courts are constrained to avoid a construction that would result in unreasonable, harsh, or absurd consequences.”
• noting that trial court fundamentally erred by reclassifying the level of offense when evidence did not establish necessary element
• addressing the constitutionality of the death penalty for prison assaults

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kennedy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-25· cited 620×
• John F. Mosley v. State of Florida & SC14-2108 John F. Mosley v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-22· cited 151×
• Polite v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-09-27· cited 65×
• State v. Atkinson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-24· cited 47×
• State v. Barnum
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 47×
• State v. Nozie
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2009-04-22· cited 41×
• Frey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-05· cited 36×
• State of Florida v. Dazarian Cordell Lewars
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-12-13· cited 29×
• WEP, JR. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-07-18· cited 23×
• Connolly, Jr. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-07-29· cited 23×
• In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES— REPORT NO. 2013-03
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-08-28· cited 17×
• O'HARA v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-19· cited 16×
• State of Florida v. Ray Mon Wright
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-10-20· cited 11×
• Gangapersad Ramroop v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-03-30· cited 10×
• Morris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-29· cited 9×
• McNeil v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-03-13· cited 9×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-08· cited 8×
• Cason Ex Rel. Saferight v. Hammock
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-06-24· cited 7×
• Jennings v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-11-18· cited 6×
• Atkinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-07-27· cited 5×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-05-04· cited 232×
• Burdick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-06· cited 189×
• United States v. Walker Bennett Monroe
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-08-21· cited 170×
• Chicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-24· cited 155×
• Lowry v. Parole and Probation Com'n
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-13· cited 84×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-09-14· cited 72×
• Amlotte v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-06· cited 65×
• Scates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 54×
• Nica v. Div. of Administrative Hearings
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-01-16· cited 51×
• Miele v. Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-08· cited 50×
• State v. Grinage
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-05-18· cited 25×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-01-31· cited 17×
• Grinage v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-08-19· cited 15×
• Carpentier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-25· cited 14×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 3×