Alvarez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a trial court’s inferences regarding the findings of historical fact are entitled to “appropriate weight”
• “Where the Florida Standard Jury Instruction adequately apprises the jury as to the law and evidence, it is proper to give the standard instruction rather than a requested special instruction.”
• Defendant’s statement to police that a third party (who later turned out to be his attorney) instructed him not to talk was not an unequivocal, unambiguous invocation of his right to remain silent or his right to counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alvarez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-07-15· cited 16×
• Bailey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-12-22· cited 13×
• Reeves v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-03· cited 4×
• Broomfield v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-31· cited 1×
• Randy Kent v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-04-07
• Castellanos v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-30
• Melchi Thomas v. The State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-03-27

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 2,777×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-16· cited 375×
• Connor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-06· cited 331×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-19· cited 206×
• Pedro Medina v. Harry K. Singletary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-07-17· cited 166×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• State v. Glatzmayer
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-03· cited 133×
• Gerald Anthony Coleman v. Harry K. Singletary, Robert A. Butterworth
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-09-08· cited 119×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-17· cited 86×
• United States v. Scurlock
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-05-08· cited 69×
• Carpenter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 66×
• Owen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-23· cited 53×
• State v. Setzler
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-10-24· cited 47×
• J.G. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-10-11· cited 17×
• State v. Shaw
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-04-26· cited 13×
• Ford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-12-19· cited 12×