Ryan 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 resort to personal attacks on defense counsel is an improper trial tactic which can poison the minds of the jury
• asking jury not to set defendant free into community in part because she was a liar
• condemning closing arguments which, inter alia, described defense counsel as “hiding the ball,” and arguing to the jury that defense counsel “is not being honest with you”
• prosecutor's closing argument emphasizing wealth of defendant and fact that defense counsel was from big city was fundamental error; new trial granted despite lack of multiple objections to argument at trial
• improper tactic which can poison the minds of the jurors
• condemning the prosecution's comparison to the Patty Hearst case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-28· cited 55×
• Lawhorne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-30· cited 39×
• Redish v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-05-04· cited 33×
• Rosso v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-04-14· cited 28×
• Altieri v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-26· cited 28×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-10· cited 27×
• DeFreitas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-10-22· cited 25×
• D'Ambrosio v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-28· cited 21×
• Barnes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-26· cited 20×
• Cochran v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-18· cited 20×
• Northard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-12· cited 18×
• Bass v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-07-21· cited 18×
• McKenzie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-13· cited 17×
• Worden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-17· cited 17×
• Gorby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-11· cited 16×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-12-03· cited 15×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-24· cited 15×
• Palazon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-04-15· cited 13×
• Ford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-12-10· cited 12×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• United States v. Hasting
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,999×
• United States v. Phillips
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-12-28· cited 659×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-07-28· cited 315×
• State v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-12· cited 147×
• State v. Cumbie
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-02-21· cited 91×
• Trafficante v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-01-23· cited 83×
• Peterson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-05· cited 53×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-08-22· cited 39×
• Grant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-02-01· cited 36×
• Fitzgerald v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1969-10-14· cited 22×
• Ailer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1959-08-28· cited 15×
• Glassman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-11-13· cited 15×
• Buckhann v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-04-04· cited 15×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-03-01· cited 11×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-09-24· cited 11×
• Reese v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-04-09· cited 8×
• Navarro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-05-30· cited 6×
• Shepherd v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-07-05· cited 3×