Fowler 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 a court considering the issue of competency can rely on an expert’s written reports if the parties agree
• holding that a court considering the issue of competency can rely on an expert’s written reports if the parties agree
• noting that it is appropriate for the trial court to consider only repoi'ts to determine a defendant’s competency at a hearing following a period of incompetency so long as the parties agree
• where doctors' reports conflict, no abuse of discretion in finding defendant competent to stand trial
• “[O]ur finding in this regard does not require vacation of the judgment and sentence entered against defendant at this time.”
• “[0]ur finding in this regard does not require vacation of the judgment and sentence entered against defendant at this time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-10-27· cited 182×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Bernard J. Dougherty v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-10-16· cited 152×
• Lane v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-09-25· cited 106×
• State v. Tait
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-06-12· cited 66×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-15· cited 49×
• Ronald Pak Zern v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-05-12· cited 49×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-02· cited 44×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-03· cited 43×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 40×
• Molina v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-08· cited 32×
• Burns v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-10-06· cited 31×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-10-19· cited 28×
• Merriell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-04· cited 27×
• Land v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-03-20· cited 24×
• Antonio Jermaine Presley v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-29· cited 24×
• Ponticelli v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-10-10· cited 22×
• Seay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-11-01· cited 22×
• Carlos D. Cotton v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-10-20· cited 22×
• Robert L. Rumph v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-04-13· cited 22×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-02-17· cited 55×
• Perkins v. Mayo
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-13· cited 44×
• Brock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1954-01-05· cited 28×
• United States v. Paul Curtis Walker
  Sixth Circuit· 1962-04-11· cited 26×
• Horace v. Culver
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-05-06· cited 25×
• Knight v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1964-05-26· cited 13×