Davis 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 failure to give guilty knowledge instruction was not fundamental error in case where \the only position taken by the defendant was that he was not the person who sold the cocaine to the informant\
• holding that although a defendant’s theory of defense may be considered in analyzing whether the omission of a required element constitutes fundamental error, such considerations are irrelevant when reviewing preserved errors for harmless error
• stating that a mistaken identity defense does not place all elements of a crime in dispute so as to allow the failure to instruct on an element to be raised for the first time on appeal
• rejecting application of Scott in favor of application of Delva

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Battle v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-09-01· cited 49×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-21· cited 19×
• Garcia v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-09-03· cited 12×
• Starling v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-04-15· cited 7×
• Griffin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-09-18· cited 6×
• Ozell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-02-12· cited 4×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-07-12· cited 3×
• Mathis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-11-26· cited 1×
• Terrell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-03-08
• Dononovan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-19
• Love v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-02-15

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Delva
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-21· cited 308×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-19· cited 206×
• Chicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-24· cited 155×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 59×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-27· cited 11×