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.

• holding that under the mailbox rule, the date that a motion is placed into the hands of prison officials for filing is the date that the motion is considered filed
• holding that under the 4 mailbox rule, the date that a motion is placed into the hands of prison officials for filing is the date that the motion is considered filed
• “[Hinder the ‘mailbox rule,’ a prisoner’s pleading is deemed filed the date that it is placed in the hands of prison officials.”
• “[S]ince an inmate loses control of his document after placing it in the hands of prison officials who may not timely mail the document, this Court has held that an inmate’s document is deemed 'filed' when he or she places it in the hands of prison officials.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Griffin v. Sistuenck
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-02· cited 34×
• Proctor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-23· cited 32×
• Amend. to Fla. Rules of Appellate Proc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-12· cited 26×
• In Re AMENDMENTS TO the FLORIDA RULES OF APPELLATE PROCEDURE
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-11-06· cited 16×
• Newell v. Moore
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-02-01· cited 11×
• Saavedra v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-03-09· cited 10×
• Bulley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-22· cited 8×
• Cunniff v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-03-16· cited 7×
• Donald Waters v. Department of Corrections
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-05· cited 7×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-23· cited 6×
• Hampton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-03-07· cited 6×
• Crews v. Malara
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-10-11· cited 6×
• Neal v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-12-09· cited 5×
• Wimbush v. Pasco County Sheriff's Office
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-10-18· cited 5×
• Earls v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-06-29· cited 5×
• Scullock v. Gee
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-03-12· cited 5×
• Westley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-06-08· cited 4×
• Rosier v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-01· cited 4×
• Whitfield v. Department of Corrections
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-02-22· cited 4×
• Amendments to the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-03· cited 4×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-08-13· cited 7×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-30· cited 6×
• Higgs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-05-29· cited 2×