Maharaj v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that evidence of newspaper articles written by the victim accusing the defendant of illegally taking money and forging a check was relevant to prove defendant's motive in murdering the victim
• finding this claim meritless because the articles were relevant to show Maharaj's motivation in harming Derrick Moo Young

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Maharaj v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2005-12-15· cited 184×
• San Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 109×
• Coday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 94×
• Rimmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-07-03· cited 92×
• Donaldson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-30· cited 88×
• Maharaj v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-19· cited 81×
• Maharaj v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-11-30· cited 76×
• Hardy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 28×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 12×
• Fischman v. Suen
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-01· cited 8×
• State v. Richardson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-07-02· cited 7×
• Naylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-01-19· cited 1×
• Suiter v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-03-28

Cites

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

• United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 1,415×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Hardwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 198×
• Lambright v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 186×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 149×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• Forbes v. Holiday Corp. Savings & Retirement Plan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03· cited 133×
• Heiney v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-15· cited 124×
• CBS Inc. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1988-04-04· cited 108×
• Correll v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-14· cited 104×
• Illinois v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-14· cited 77×
• Brown v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-19· cited 69×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-01-31· cited 67×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-02· cited 65×
• Herring v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-11-05· cited 63×
• Stano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-11-01· cited 62×
• Herring v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 59×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-02· cited 56×