Kerlin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing how the privilege is narrowly construed and does not cover one spouse’s observations of the other spouse’s criminal actions
• violation of the marital privilege subject to harmless error analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• State v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1984-03-24· cited 74×
• Kaczmar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-10-04· cited 23×
• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-09· cited 10×
• State v. Hart
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-07-24· cited 9×
• Bolin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-02-21· cited 8×
• Hill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-06-06· cited 6×
• Bell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-03· cited 2×
• State v. George
  Orange County Court· 1982-07-08
• C. E. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-07-05
• Coleman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-11-16
• Bryan Schwarz v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-04-16

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wolfle v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1934-01-08· cited 272×
• Blau v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1951-01-15· cited 181×
• Savino v. Luciano
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-20· cited 46×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-06· cited 18×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1963-10-16· cited 15×
• Ross v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-09-26· cited 10×
• Tibado v. Brees
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-06-28· cited 7×
• Gates v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-08-08· cited 4×
• Kerlin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-07-23· cited 1×