Purcell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court erred in refusing to allow defense counsel to impeach prosecution witness by showing bias
• finding the trial court erred in not allowing appellant to ask whether the State's witness previously offered to \let the case go away\ in exchange for money
• finding the trial court erred in not allowing appellant to ask whether the State’s witness previously offered to “let the case go away” in exchange for money
• “Considerable latitude should be accorded a defendant in attempting to establish bias, including allowing inquiries that might at first blush appear to be lacking any basis at all thus far in the trial, so long as counsel states a basis tending ultimately to show such bias.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Childers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-02· cited 27×
• Tomengo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-09· cited 20×
• Love v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-09· cited 18×
• Barows v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-01-23· cited 12×
• Mitchell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-12-24· cited 8×
• Rowley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-18· cited 7×
• Tobin v. Leland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-03· cited 5×
• Pedro Fajardo v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-06-08· cited 4×
• Musson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-01-22· cited 3×
• Mardis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-10-09· cited 2×
• Cipriano v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-09-29· cited 2×
• Brianne Middlebrook v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-03-07

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Alford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1904-01-15· cited 36×
• McFadden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-28· cited 34×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-10-05· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-18· cited 24×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-08-21· cited 22×
• Auchmuty v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-03-04· cited 19×
• Phillips v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-12-28· cited 13×
• Cox v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-11-30· cited 10×
• Caton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-22· cited 9×
• Pomeranz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-04-13· cited 7×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-09-08· cited 6×
• Stanley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-02-01· cited 5×
• Perez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-23· cited 2×