Ray v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the independent act instruction was not warranted because the evidence showed the cofelons were joint “participants in the robbery and the murder resulted from forces they set in motion”
• \Admission of evidence is within the discretion of the trial court and will not be reversed unless there has been a clear abuse of that discretion\
• “Where, however, the defendant was a willing participant in the underlying felony and the murder resulted from forces which [defendant and his accomplice] set in motion, no independent act instruction is appropriate.”
• murder occurring as a result of escaping from planned armed robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-21· cited 95×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-23· cited 85×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-04-22· cited 82×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 60×
• Blackwelder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-03· cited 50×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-03-20· cited 47×
• Linn v. Fossum
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-11-02· cited 45×
• Gosciminski v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-09-12· cited 43×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 40×
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-05-29· cited 37×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 37×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-28· cited 36×
• Tavares David Calloway v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-01-26· cited 33×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-09-22· cited 32×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-13· cited 28×

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 140×
• Palmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-05· cited 117×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 97×
• Slater v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-06-25· cited 94×
• Chestnut v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-05· cited 92×
• Hansbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-06-18· cited 81×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-06· cited 68×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 63×
• Kramer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 63×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• Kight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 60×
• Scott v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 58×
• Peterka v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-04-21· cited 45×
• Bello v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 42×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-10-05· cited 33×
• Dell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-11-01· cited 32×