Melendez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• denying newly discovered evidence claim because evidence presented was unlikely to change the verdict where the jury had already rejected the same defense theory
• “As long as the trial court's finding are supported by competent substantial evidence, ‘this Court will not substitute its judgment for that of the trial court on questions of fact, . . . .’” (quoting Blanco v. State, 702 So. 2d 1250, 1252 (Fla. 1997))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bruno v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-06· cited 103×
• State v. Riechmann
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-24· cited 98×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-05-20· cited 96×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-01-31· cited 95×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-22· cited 74×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-20· cited 62×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-24· cited 60×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-07-13· cited 60×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 59×
• Heath v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-29· cited 56×
• Robert Joe Long v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-01-21· cited 44×
• Crosley Alexander Green v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2022-03-14· cited 41×
• Sireci v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-02-28· cited 40×
• Riechmann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-09-20· cited 35×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-31· cited 35×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-09-27· cited 32×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 29×
• Mann v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-07-12· cited 29×
• State v. Larzelere
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-28· cited 27×
• Melton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-11-30· cited 22×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-14· cited 320×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 140×
• Demps v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-12-20· cited 69×
• United States v. Meros
  Eleventh Circuit· 1989-02-13· cited 68×
• Melendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-11-12· cited 60×
• Hegwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-17· cited 31×
• Melendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-11· cited 21×
• Melendez v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-08· cited 2×