Merritt v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant's escape attempt while en route to Florida to stand trial did not prove that such flight was to avoid prosecution of unrelated murder, even though defendant knew he was a suspect in that case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Fenelon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-13· cited 93×
• Twilegar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 73×
• Shellito v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-11· cited 69×
• Escobar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 61×
• Murray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-03· cited 27×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 22×
• Schlimme v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-02· cited 18×
• State v. St. Jean
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-06-23· cited 9×
• Young v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-08· cited 7×
• Highsmith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-05-08· cited 6×
• Perez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-03-14· cited 5×
• Adderly v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-08-25· cited 5×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-25· cited 4×
• Lefevre v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-09-04· cited 4×
• Meggison v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-03-30· cited 4×
• Barrientos v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-09-18· cited 4×
• Harold v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-05-30· cited 4×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-02-17· cited 3×
• Jacobs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-28· cited 2×
• Fenelon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-02-13· cited 1×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Straight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-19· cited 174×
• Bundy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-05-09· cited 135×
• State v. Young
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1968-12-10· cited 103×
• Bundy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-14· cited 53×
• Blackwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1920-05-10· cited 48×
• Whitfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-14· cited 35×
• Daniels v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-02-04· cited 27×