Sims v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that rule 3.852\is a discovery rule for public records production ancillary to proceedings pursuant to rules 3.850 and 3.851\
• explaining that rule 3.852 “is a discovery rule for public records production ancillary to proceedings pursuant to rules 3.850 and 3.851”
• explaining that rule 3.852(h)(3) is “not intended to be a procedure authorizing a fishing expedition for records unrelated to a colorable claim for postconviction relief”
• reviewing order denying public records under rule 3.852 on plenary appeal where capital defendant’s warrant had been signed and successive postconviction motion was still pending
• “The use [in rule 3.852(h)(3)] of the past tense and such words and phrases as ‘requested,’ ‘previously,’ ‘received,’ ‘produced,’ ‘previous request,’ and ‘produced previously’ are not happenstance.”
• “This rule is.a discovery rule for .public records production ancillary to proceedings pursuant to rules 3.850 and 3.851.” (quoting Amends. to Fla. R. of Crim. Pro., 754 So.2d 640, 643 (Fla. 1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-11-29· cited 55×
• Diaz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-12-08· cited 55×
• Glock v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-01-05· cited 53×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-07· cited 52×
• Dennis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-12-20· cited 51×
• Askari Abdullah Muhammad f/k/a Thomas Knight v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-01-03· cited 42×
• Mark James Asay v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-08-14· cited 42×
• Rutherford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-27· cited 38×
• Tompkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-04-22· cited 38×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-04-02· cited 37×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-25· cited 30×
• Jose Antonio Jimenez v. State of Florida & SC18-1321 Jose Antonio Jimenez v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-10-04· cited 25×
• Rimmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-16· cited 23×
• & SC16-481 Harrel Franklin Braddy v. State of Florida and Harrel Franklin Braddy v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-06-15· cited 17×
• Patrick C. Hannon v. State of Florida and
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-11-01· cited 17×
• Scott v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-17· cited 12×
• Gary Ray Bowles v. State of Florida and Gary Ray Bowles v. Mark S. Inch, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2019-08-13
• James Milton Dailey v. State of Florida & James Milton Dailey v. Mark S. Inch, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2019-11-12
• Loran Cole v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2024-08-23
• Mesac Damas v. State of Florida &Mesac Damas v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2025-10-03

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sims v. Singletary
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-09-22· cited 236×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-11-03· cited 34×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-06-11· cited 25×
• In Re Amendment to Fla. Rules of Crim.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-31· cited 10×
• Amendments to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure 3.852
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-01· cited 9×
• Sims v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-06-24· cited 7×
• Amendments to Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure—Rule 3.852 (Capital Postconviction Public Records Production) & Rule 3.993 (Related Forms)
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-18· cited 7×
• In Re Rules Govern. Capital Postconviction
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-07· cited 5×
• Sims v. Moore
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-21· cited 2×
• Sims v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-11· cited 1×