Jackson 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 circumstances that contribute to a victim's death after the victim becomes unconscious cannot be considered in determining HAC
• finding that defendant waived marital privilege by waiting two days after prosecutor commented on the marital privilege before moving for mistrial
• witness was not adverse, and thus could not be impeached on direct examination, because the testimony was not affirmatively harmful
• actions after death of the victim are irrelevant in determining whether aggravating circumstance of heinousness applies
• error to impeach prosecution witness as adverse witness where witness merely suffered lapse of memory
• “An objection need not always be made at the moment an examination enters impermissible areas of inquiry”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Biegenwald
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-03-05· cited 269×
• State v. Wille
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1990-03-12· cited 269×
• State v. Williams
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 252×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Mercer v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1999-01-28· cited 96×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 88×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 83×
• Buzia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 71×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-17· cited 66×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-06· cited 66×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-12-24· cited 62×
• State v. Wood
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1998-10-09· cited 60×
• Victorino v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-11-25· cited 54×
• Durousseau v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-09· cited 54×
• Castro v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-13· cited 52×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 50×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Castor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-12-19· cited 419×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-05-21· cited 107×
• Herzog v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-22· cited 46×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1894-06-15· cited 45×
• Rankin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-06-27· cited 33×
• Gibbs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-01-06· cited 31×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1945-04-20· cited 23×
• Roban v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-05-21· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-09-30· cited 20×
• Paul v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-12-20· cited 18×
• Pitts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-05-24· cited 13×
• Perry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-02-23· cited 12×