Evans v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying an abuse of discretion standard to the trial court's determination of competency made after hearing conflicting expert testimony
• relying, in part, on the fact that “the trial judge had ample opportunity to observe Evans in the courtroom” to conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding Evans competent to stand trial
• relying, in part, on the fact that “the trial judge had ample opportunity to observe Evans in the courtroom” to conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding Evans competent to stand trial
• where a State witness referred to the defendant’s prior criminal record, any possible error resulting from this remark was harmless because the defendant admitted on the stand that he had two felony convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-01-06· cited 92×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-02· cited 62×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-03· cited 60×
• Owen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-23· cited 53×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-24· cited 47×
• Bill Paul Marquardt v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-01-22· cited 47×
• Silvia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-04-07· cited 47×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-07· cited 46×
• Philmore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-30· cited 45×
• Hernandez-Alberto v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-09-23· cited 36×
• Wilcox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-08· cited 32×
• Kopsho v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-03-01· cited 27×
• Gill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-07-09· cited 25×
• Russ v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-09-22· cited 24×
• Israel v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-19· cited 22×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-07-08· cited 22×
• Tina Lasonya Brown v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-15· cited 20×

Cites

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

• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Faison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-02-10· cited 228×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-13· cited 120×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 115×
• Koon v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-25· cited 104×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 97×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 97×
• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 93×
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-12-08· cited 83×