Robertson 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 a defendant's prior threat in 1993 to shoot his ex-wife with an assault rifle was inadmissible at his 1996 trial for killing his girlfriend with a handgun
• holding that although a trial court may have conducted a legally incorrect analysis when crafting its order, if the court reached the right result, albeit for the wrong reason, the order may nonetheless be affirmed
• recognizing that Tipsy Coachman doctrine “allows an appellate court to affirm a trial court that ‘reaches the right result, but for the wrong reasons’ so long as ‘there is any basis which would support the judgment in the record’ ”
• discussing that an appellate court may affirm a trial court order that reaches the right result, but for the wrong reason
• noting that appellate court may affirm a trial court order that reaches the right result but for the wrong reason
• holding that the appellate court could not use the tipsy coachman doctrine to hold that evidence was admissible under the Williams rule when the State never filed the required Williams rule notice and never argued in the trial court that the evidence was admissible on that basis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wallace v. Dean
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-29· cited 168×
• Butler v. Yusem
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-09-08· cited 167×
• McLean v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-07-06· cited 125×
• Berges v. Infinity Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-11-18· cited 119×
• McWatters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-03-18· cited 98×
• Gainesville Health Care Center, Inc. v. Weston
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-09-18· cited 95×
• Bizzell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-10-19· cited 59×
• Victorino v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-11-25· cited 54×
• Durousseau v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-09· cited 54×
• Dorsett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-20· cited 51×
• Huggins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-02· cited 49×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 48×
• Powell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-05-22· cited 44×
• Gainesville Woman Care, LLC v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-02-16· cited 41×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-03-18· cited 39×
• Van v. Schmidt
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-09-04· cited 38×
• Shands Teaching Hospital & Clinic, Inc. v. Mercury Insurance Co. of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-06-07· cited 37×
• State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. Levine
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-19· cited 34×
• State v. Gerry
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-22· cited 33×
• Tavares David Calloway v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-01-26· cited 33×

Cites

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

• Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-10-04· cited 1,882×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• State v. Smith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1993-11-18· cited 479×
• Dade Cty. Sch. Bd. v. Radio Station WQBA
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-02-04· cited 471×
• Florida Dept. of Transp. v. Juliano
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-21· cited 230×
• Straight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-19· cited 174×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-01-18· cited 153×
• People v. Henson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1973-10-18· cited 149×
• Heuring v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 147×
• Czubak v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-08· cited 132×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Nielsen v. City of Sarasota
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-02-03· cited 107×
• Geralds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-02-22· cited 99×
• Vest v. Travelers Ins. Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-03-02· cited 94×
• Ansin v. Thurston
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-03-26· cited 83×
• Coco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-01-20· cited 73×
• Bozeman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-09-03· cited 66×
• People v. Sims
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-09-30· cited 53×
• Castro v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-13· cited 52×
• State v. Clark
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1993-09-30· cited 47×