Dorsey 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 that the law \is well settled that such 'prefatory language' cannot expand or restrict the otherwise unambiguous language of a statute\
• interpreting the definition of wire communication to apply “only to so much of the communication as is actually transmitted by wire and not broadcast in a manner available to the public”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wollard v. Lloyd's & Companies of Lloyd's
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-10-06· cited 105×
• State v. Delaurier
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1985-02-21· cited 50×
• United States v. Carrazana
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-01-30· cited 35×
• State v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1984-03-24· cited 34×
• State v. McVeigh
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-02-16· cited 30×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-09· cited 18×
• Mozo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-01-19· cited 15×
• Department of State, etc. v. Florida Greyhound Association, Inc., etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-09-07· cited 14×
• Divco Construction & Realty Corp. v. Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc.
  S.D. Florida· 1983-12-06· cited 6×
• Weitzner v. Goldman (In Re Kavolchyck)
  S.D. Florida· 1993-05-11· cited 6×
• People v. Medina
  California Court of Appeal· 1987-02-04· cited 6×
• State v. Smith
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1987-12-03· cited 6×
• US Fidelity and Guar. Co. v. Murray
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-03-20· cited 5×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-05-13· cited 3×
• Bogan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-11-14· cited 3×
• Feeley v. State
  Florida Circuit Courts· 1985-09-25· cited 1×
• State v. Duran
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1995-02-28· cited 1×
• Lewars v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-05-12
• Wester v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-11-13
• City of Gainesville, Florida D/B/A Gainesville Regional Utilities v. Parkwood Alachua Land Investments, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-10-01

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Turkette
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-17· cited 2,648×
• Delph v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-11-06· cited 338×
• United States v. Elliott
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-04-21· cited 305×
• United States v. Justin Rone, United States of America v. Roy Dupont Little
  Ninth Circuit· 1979-06-13· cited 180×
• United States v. Leslie Anderson and Leonard Mooney
  Eighth Circuit· 1980-09-12· cited 130×
• Coosaw Mining Co. v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1892-04-04· cited 109×
• United States v. Joseph Motley Whitehead, United States of America v. Wayne Holley, United States of America v. Aubrey Henderson
  Fourth Circuit· 1980-03-20· cited 107×
• Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad v. Thomas
  Supreme Court· 1889-11-18· cited 102×
• United States v. Cuesta
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-06-25· cited 84×
• United States v. Sutton
  Sixth Circuit· 1980-12-03· cited 69×
• United States v. Frank Altese, A/K/A Frankie Feets
  Second Circuit· 1976-07-01· cited 68×
• United States v. John Merrill Hall, United States of America v. William King Nichols, United States of America v. James Kline Dever
  Ninth Circuit· 1973-10-19· cited 64×
• United States v. Novia Turkette, Jr., United States of America v. John Vargas
  First Circuit· 1980-09-23· cited 54×
• United States v. Robert v. H. Sugden and Jean S. Sugden
  Ninth Circuit· 1955-11-10· cited 35×
• Idaho Commission on Human Rights v. Campbell
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1973-02-07· cited 21×
• State v. Whiddon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-07-17· cited 14×
• Moorehead v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-05-01· cited 12×
• Hughes Tool Company, a Delaware Corporation v. John H. Meier and John R. Suckling, Anthony Hatsis
  Tenth Circuit· 1973-10-23· cited 10×
• In re Camden Shipbuilding Co.
  D. Maine· 1964-03-10· cited 5×