Butler 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 instruction on victim’s right to defend his dwelling was error when it was inconsistent with state’s theory of the case
• noting that “the court should not give instructions which are confusing”
• conducting a de novo review as to the propriety of a special jury instruction and whether an erroneous instruction constituted harmless error
• \Jury instructions must relate to issues concerning evidence received at trial.\ (citing Buford v. Wainwright, 428 So. 2d 1389, 1390–91 (Fla. 1983))
• jury instructions must relate to issues concerning evidence received at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

63 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Wimberly
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-11· cited 137×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-01-14· cited 56×
• State of Florida v. Robert Franklin Floyd
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-03-10· cited 37×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-09-22· cited 32×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-05-14· cited 28×
• Masaka v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-04-01· cited 27×
• Dias v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-13· cited 26×
• Kingery v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-03-30· cited 21×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-12-08· cited 19×
• McKenzie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-13· cited 17×
• State v. Kettell
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-04-24· cited 16×
• Burnette v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-04-27· cited 14×
• Cliff Berry, Inc. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-04· cited 14×
• Lusk v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-09-30· cited 13×
• Pieczynski v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-12-15· cited 12×
• Chevron USA, Inc. v. Forbes
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-02· cited 11×
• Wadman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-10· cited 11×
• Hoffert v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-11· cited 10×
• Maynard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-07-28· cited 10×
• Reed v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-10-21· cited 9×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Veliz v. American Hosp., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-06-07· cited 39×
• Florida Power & Light Company v. McCollum
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-01-31· cited 38×
• Falco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-12-17· cited 26×
• Griffin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-05-15· cited 18×
• Buford v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-03-17· cited 16×
• Palmer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-12-19· cited 15×
• Swindle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-11-12· cited 10×
• Harvey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-04-12· cited 8×
• Shannon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-02-20· cited 3×
• Butler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-10-02· cited 1×