Paz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reducing murder conviction to voluntary manslaughter where defendant killed the victim after defendants’ wife indicated that the victim had sexually 36 No. 1-07-0266 assaulted her
• “In order for the defense of heat of passion to be available there must be ‘adequate provocation . . . as might obscure the reason or dominate the volition of an or- dinary reasonable man.’” (citing Rivers v. State, 78 So. 343, 345 (Fla. 1918)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Palmore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-07· cited 16×
• Villella v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-13· cited 13×
• High v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2009-06-04· cited 2×
• People v. Calhoun
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-09-10
• BURNIE REED v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-12-11
• Steed v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-07-05

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Heggs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-17· cited 853×
• Bortel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-09-29· cited 33×
• Disney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1916-12-19· cited 29×
• Douglas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-15· cited 15×
• Martinez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-06-06· cited 15×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-03-07· cited 14×
• Diaz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-01· cited 11×