Bowles 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, “[p]olice officers, by virtue of their positions, rightfully bring with their testimony an air of authority and legitimacy. A jury is inclined to give great weight to their opinions as officers of the law”
• “No legal principle is more firmly established in our system of jurisprudence than that which makes the jury the sole arbiter of the credibility of witnesses, including the reasonableness, probability and credibility of a defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Engesser
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2003-04-23· cited 59×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-15· cited 38×
• Boatwright v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-07-18· cited 32×
• Tumblin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-02-25· cited 27×
• State v. Paul
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-06· cited 22×
• Gamble v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-14· cited 15×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-26· cited 13×
• Hernandez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-02-20· cited 10×
• Stribbling v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-14· cited 8×
• ASHLYN SALOMON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-03-20· cited 7×
• Alvarez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-09-05· cited 4×
• Gianfrancisco v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-12-05· cited 3×
• Kaseta v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-03
• DALVON DEON LAWRENCE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-06-19
• Fuentes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-12-30
• Richard Allen Cochran v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-06-06
• Kissy Terice Jovan MacKey v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-12-12
• Kissy Terice Jovan MacKey v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-02-06
• Eduardo Alfredo Medrano-Chavez v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-05-06

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stripling v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-07-12· cited 38×
• Maloy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1906-06-15· cited 27×
• Lebowitz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-05-27· cited 17×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-03-27· cited 17×