Donaldson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding harmful error and reversing sentence when State suggested in penalty phase of trial that defendant was actually principal to crime in which he was convicted as only accessory after fact
• “Where the case is not technicálly closed (i.e., counsel have not begun closing argument and the case has not been submitted to the jury
• “Whether to allow the reopening of a case is á question involving sound judicial discretion of :the trial court, a discretion rarely interfered with at the appellate level.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

78 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×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-16· cited 164×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-21· cited 155×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 122×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-20· cited 120×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 119×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Crain v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-28· cited 106×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• McWatters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-03-18· cited 98×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Rimmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-07-03· cited 92×
• Carpenter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 66×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Spann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-03· cited 61×
• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-12-06· cited 59×
• Ault v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-11-06· cited 46×

Cites

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

• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Specht v. Patterson
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-29· cited 837×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Green v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1979-05-29· cited 672×
• Tibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-09· cited 432×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-03-13· cited 390×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-26· cited 283×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-22· cited 218×
• Bertolotti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 198×
• Presnell v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1978-11-06· cited 191×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• Staten v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 110×
• Davis v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-31· cited 103×
• Henyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 101×