Thornton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutor’s attempted impeachment asking whether defendant said he had to “[b]urn a n-r” improperly referred to unrelated offenses and implied existence of inadmissible damaging facts
• prosecutor's attempted impeachment asking whether defendant said he had to \[b]urn a n----r\ improperly referred to unrelated offenses and implied existence of inadmissible damaging facts
• prosecutor’s attempted impeachment asking whether defendant said he had to “burn a nigger” improperly referred to prior unrelated offenses and implied existence of inadmissible damaging facts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

3 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ramey
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-09-14· cited 347×
• Stephenson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-03· cited 6×
• Thornton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-08-01· cited 6×

Cites

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

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• United States v. Gaetano Modica
  Second Circuit· 1981-10-30· cited 288×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-15· cited 97×
• Ryan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-19· cited 55×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-10-05· cited 45×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-08-22· cited 39×
• Hufham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-17· cited 34×
• Landry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-06-30· cited 34×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-19· cited 32×
• Salazar-Robles v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-10-02· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-03-22· cited 22×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-05-20· cited 21×
• D'Ambrosio v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-28· cited 21×
• McMillian v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-02-02· cited 20×
• Barnes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-26· cited 20×
• Cochran v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-18· cited 20×
• Kindell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-18· cited 19×
• Cochran v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-07-17· cited 18×