Benson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting the established fact exception in criminal cases, explaining that a secondary “inference may be admissible into evidence, even though it is based upon another inference, if the other inference has been shown to exist beyond a reasonable doubt”
• “[T]he evidence in its totality supports no contrary reasonable inference. Under these circumstances the reason for the general rule against the pyramiding of inferences – to avoid judgments based upon speculation – does not exist.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Castillo v. EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-10· cited 42×
• Irizarry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-02-09· cited 14×
• I.F.T. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-10-29· cited 11×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-01-20· cited 9×
• Slitor v. Elias
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-12· cited 6×
• O'Malley v. Ranger Construction Industries, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-01-08· cited 6×
• M.S. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-07-03· cited 1×
• IFT v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-10-29
• Yoris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-01-23
• JOHN GARCIA v. THE STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-04-26

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Holland v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-01-31· cited 3,238×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Hayes v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 603×
• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 230×
• State v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 155×
• McKenna v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 153×
• Voelker v. Combined Ins. Co. of America
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1954-06-25· cited 148×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• State v. Harvill
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-11-16· cited 126×
• Heiney v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-15· cited 124×
• John T. Dirring v. United States of America, (Two Cases)
  First Circuit· 1964-02-25· cited 115×
• State v. Enmund
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 104×
• Amazon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-13· cited 78×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-30· cited 76×
• Gustine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1923-06-13· cited 75×
• Stano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-07-11· cited 65×
• Charles E. Toliver v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1955-07-26· cited 64×
• Fowler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-09-11· cited 53×