Lawson 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 in order to violate probationer, a violation “must mirror the language of the condition of probation allegedly violated”
• recognizing that the trial court may order a probationer to complete a drug treatment program as a special condition of ordinary probation
• holding that where the probation revocation decision hinges on legal questions, the de novo standard applies
• explaining that “a probation order that requires completion of a drug treatment program but fails to specify time parameters should be read in a commonsense manner”
• applying abuse of discretion standard to trial court’s ultimate decision to revoke probation
• even though probation order contained no express time parameters for completion of drug-treatment program, commonsense reading of order provided probationer adequate notice that treatment program should be undertaken at beginning of probationary period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Del Valle v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-12-15· cited 55×
• Savage v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-08-30· cited 46×
• Peters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-01· cited 28×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-03-27· cited 13×
• State v. Scott Provost
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2015-07-17· cited 12×
• Warren Staples v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-10-06· cited 10×
• Jared Snow v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-03-02· cited 9×
• Levandoski v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-04-19· cited 9×
• State v. Jasen Suhr
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-04-27· cited 8×
• Selig v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-05-10· cited 8×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-12· cited 7×
• Michael Levandoski v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-06-07· cited 7×
• Ramirez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-03-06· cited 6×
• Carson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-26· cited 6×
• Gary v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-07-18· cited 6×
• BRIAN HARRINGTON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-02-21· cited 6×
• State v. J.S.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2018-04-27· cited 6×
• Williamson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-08-31· cited 5×
• Kenneth Isaac Parkerson v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-04-29· cited 5×
• Jeremy Ryan Hilley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-25· cited 5×

Cites

34 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Morrissey v. Brewer
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 10,835×
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• Bernhardt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-01-09· cited 182×
• State v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-02-22· cited 141×
• State v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-05· cited 108×
• Hines v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-04-20· cited 89×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-01-06· cited 69×
• Koile v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-07-06· cited 63×
• State Ex Rel. Roberts v. Cochran
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-01-24· cited 57×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-04· cited 47×
• State v. Meeks
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-07-12· cited 36×
• Salzano v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-11-22· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-24· cited 20×
• Lynom v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-29· cited 20×
• Butler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-19· cited 19×
• Britt v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-05· cited 16×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-14· cited 15×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-20· cited 14×
• Roberts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1963-05-17· cited 13×
• O'NEAL v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-12-12· cited 10×