McDuffie v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the right to present such evidence is \an important right to a defendant in a criminal case where the jury must know of any improper motives of a prosecuting witness\
• “It is a fundamental principle that matters tending to show bias or prejudice in a criminal prosecution may be inquired about even when they were not mentioned in direct examination.”
• “Bias or prejudice of a witness has an important bearing on his credibility and evidence showing such bias is relevant. . . . It is proper to elicit facts tending to show bias or prejudice of a witness in cross- examination of that witness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jaggers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-20· cited 64×
• Childers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-02· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-18· cited 24×
• Powe v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-14· cited 16×
• Yolman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-05-03· cited 13×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-01-10· cited 13×
• Hendricks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-07-18· cited 12×
• Pollard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-01-27· cited 9×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-28· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-09-06· cited 6×
• Lombardi v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-04-18· cited 5×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-01-24· cited 4×
• Jenkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-08-02· cited 4×
• Corley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-09-12· cited 4×
• PATRICK ROBERTS v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-08-03
• Hughes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-02-21
• Miller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-07-15
• Brianne Middlebrook v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-03-07

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1899-06-15· cited 157×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1964-03-06· cited 34×
• Webb v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-07-30· cited 27×
• Simmons v. Wainwright
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-01-16· cited 19×
• Kirkland v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-04-06· cited 16×
• Stradtman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-06-02· cited 14×
• Roti v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-06-23· cited 14×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1909-06-15· cited 11×
• Lyttle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-10-15· cited 5×