Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming trial court’s decision to allow child victim to testify about father’s physical abuse of mother and fear of father as being relevant to show why victim did not report her sexual abuse
• \Evidence that deals only with similar sex acts against the victim in the case being tried is far less subject to objection than evidence of similar acts against other victims.\
• “We find on the record an implied charge by Smith that the victim was improperly influenced by her mother and the state to bring charges against her father, and that this influence created in her a motive to lie.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Lazarowicz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-05-08· cited 27×
• Toussaint v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-15· cited 15×
• Fleitas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-31· cited 14×
• State v. Paille
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-10· cited 12×
• Padgett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-11-09· cited 9×
• Castro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-31· cited 5×
• Sutherland v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-06-11· cited 4×
• Maddry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-08-08· cited 4×
• Adkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-11· cited 4×
• Kimbrell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-09· cited 3×
• Bell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-17· cited 2×
• State v. Bearer
  Florida Circuit Courts· 1991-07-03

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Heuring v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 147×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-26· cited 42×
• McElveen v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-18· cited 27×
• Gibbs v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-02-27· cited 14×