Abbott 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 aggravated battery defendant not entitled to instruction on justifiable use of deadly force where defendant denied on the stand using knife on victim
• where the State fails to meet its burden of showing that the error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, the failure to give the applicable instruction on the justifiable use of nondeadly force is reversible error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Arthur v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-18· cited 18×
• Wright v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-18· cited 14×
• Curington v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-30· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-09-03· cited 2×
• Jemmott v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-11-03· cited 2×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-03· cited 1×
• Tacy v. Kellner
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-07-30· cited 1×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hamilton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-11-14· cited 13×
• Mewes v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1973-12-26· cited 11×
• O'Steen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-07-18· cited 9×
• Richardson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-08-13· cited 6×