Jenkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing rule, but finding that comment was proper where defendant in opening statement said he would call his wife as alibi witness, the wife, therefore, being definitively available and competent
• allowing the State “to comment that [the] defendant failed to produce his 8 common law wife to testify as his counsel promised” during his opening statement
• the state was permitted to comment on the defense's failure to produce alibi witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Buckrem v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-01-26· cited 38×
• Romero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-07-13· cited 32×
• State v. Michaels
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-07-26· cited 25×
• Love v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-10-16· cited 25×
• Jacobs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-10-14· cited 20×
• Kindell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-18· cited 19×
• Lawyer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-12-01· cited 13×
• Wright v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-10-31· cited 10×
• Shapiro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-19· cited 10×
• Bayshore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-13· cited 9×
• Hall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-06-12· cited 8×
• Dixon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-26· cited 6×
• Lane v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-12-02· cited 6×
• Araujo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-05-22· cited 5×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-02· cited 5×
• Daughtrey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-01-14· cited 5×
• Weeks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-10-11· cited 4×
• Jacobson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-03-08
• Massey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-05-25

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Ross v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-09-26· cited 10×