Gardner 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 proper a police officer’s opinion testimony as a lay witness regarding a codefendant’s character based on hours of observation
• \Voluntary intoxication is a defense to the specific intent crimes of first-degree murder and robbery.\
• “[Ejvidence elicited during the cross-examination of prosecution witnesses may provide sufficient evidence for a jury instruction on [the theory of defense].”
• “The prior consistent statement was necessary to rehabilitate [the witness] after his impeachment by the defense and was a recognized exception to the hearsay rule.”
• “It is ... incumbent upon the court to charge the jury on every defense which is recognized by the law and sustained by a version of the testimony which the jury has a right to accept.”
• first-degree murder is a specific intent crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jerry White v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1992-09-03· cited 412×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 250×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Roy Allen Harich v. Richard Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-04-21· cited 126×
• Scurry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-06-05· cited 114×
• Lord v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-02-07· cited 109×
• Donaldson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-30· cited 88×
• Roy Allen Harich v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-03-18· cited 85×
• Almeida v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 85×
• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-07-01· cited 82×
• Hardwick v. Crosby
  Eleventh Circuit· 2003-01-31· cited 76×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-10-20· cited 69×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-28· cited 55×
• Reaves v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-20· cited 54×
• William Reaves v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-05-30· cited 48×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-03· cited 45×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-26· cited 42×
• Mora v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-24· cited 40×
• Frey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-05· cited 36×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Demps v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-13· cited 150×
• Palmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-05· cited 117×
• In re Bers
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-27· cited 87×
• Engle v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-15· cited 70×
• DeConingh v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-04-21· cited 68×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-25· cited 66×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-08· cited 53×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-02-26· cited 31×
• Mellins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-03-11· cited 27×
• State ex rel. Goepel v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-11-20· cited 5×