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.

• finding that the trial court did not commit error in failing to strike the venire after it became apparent that one of the jurors was concerned that the defendant could be released within twelve years if given a life sentence
• not abuse of discretion to refuse to allow defense witnesses to express their opinions concerning the appropriateness of death penalty
• insufficient instruction harmless error where murder was heinous, atrocious, or cruel under any definition of terms and beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-13· cited 204×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 140×
• Rodgers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 102×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 79×
• Ibar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-09· cited 77×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 65×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Wuornos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 60×
• Penalver v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-02· cited 56×
• Vining v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-04-28· cited 51×
• Gorby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-12-09· cited 50×
• Holland v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-05· cited 37×
• Fennie v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 37×
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-11· cited 36×
• Williamson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-19· cited 36×
• Pangburn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-06· cited 35×
• Muehleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-02-19· cited 32×
• Cardona v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-02· cited 29×

Cites

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

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• William Lee Thompson, Cross-Appellee v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Cross-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-04-10· cited 191×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-11-27· cited 139×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-15· cited 139×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-13· cited 117×
• Hamblen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-02· cited 92×
• Johns-Manville Sales Corp. v. Janssens
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-26· cited 71×
• Proffitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-05-28· cited 61×
• Thompson v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-09· cited 51×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-22· cited 46×
• King v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-01-04· cited 46×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 46×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-26· cited 42×
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-10-15· cited 39×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-02-14· cited 34×