Cole 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 witness’s statement that she “knew some history on” the defendant was “isolated and inadvertent and was not focused upon” and did not require a mistrial
• stating that a motion for a mistrial should be granted only when “necessary to ensure that the defendant receives 16 a fair trial”
• affirming denial of motion for mistrial based upon testimony that \was isolated and inadvertent and was not focused upon\
• affirming denial of motion for mistrial based upon testimony that “was isolated and inadvertent and was not focused upon”
• \John was conscious for several minutes while he gasped [for] air from a severed windpipe slow[ly] filling with blood.\
• no abuse of discretion where trial court denied motion for mistrial after witness unexpectedly mentioned defendant’s irrelevant criminal history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-08· cited 331×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-12-16· cited 292×
• Rutherford v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-12· cited 256×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-13· cited 204×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-21· cited 155×
• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Mansfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-03-30· cited 148×
• Doorbal v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-30· cited 122×
• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-01-06· cited 120×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-20· cited 120×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 97×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-15· cited 97×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 93×

Cites

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

• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Coney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-01-05· cited 135×
• Rolling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-20· cited 128×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-15· cited 122×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-07· cited 117×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Windom v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-27· cited 96×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-10-04· cited 93×
• Hardwick v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-08· cited 64×
• Haliburton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-05· cited 60×
• Power v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-08-27· cited 57×
• Jaffer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-20· cited 44×
• Perry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-10· cited 42×
• Lovette v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-31· cited 40×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-10-12· cited 37×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-12-17· cited 36×