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.

• \evidence relating to deeds after the killing would not be relevant to the issue of whether the crime was committed in such a heinous manner as to justify the death penalty\
• “We refuse to engraft ... an exception upon the marital privilege, again because of the harm it would inflict upon the strong policy underlying the privilege”
• improper to admit conversations between the defendant and his wife after a shooting on the ground that the statements were made incidental to, rather than because of, the marital relationship given that the communications were intended to be confidential

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1989-08-03· cited 184×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-26· cited 105×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 62×
• Snowden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-01-24· cited 29×
• MacKlin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-03-24· cited 20×
• Kerlin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-06-30· cited 14×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-08-12· cited 9×
• Hanger Orthopedic Group, Inc. v. McMurray
  M.D. Florida· 1998-01-26· cited 7×
• Watkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-10-10· cited 6×
• Kembro v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-06-13· cited 5×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-06-21· cited 5×
• State v. Terry
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2013-05-14· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-10-31· cited 3×
• State v. Arata
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-10-13· cited 3×
• Voight v. Public Health Trust
  Florida Circuit Courts· 1986-02-27

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Halliwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-12-03· cited 87×
• Trafficante v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-01-23· cited 83×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-01-27· cited 78×
• Simmons v. Wainwright
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-01-16· cited 19×
• Childers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-05-03· cited 17×
• Dodson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-06-10· cited 14×
• Ross v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-09-26· cited 10×
• Lucas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-11-09· cited 8×
• Colbert v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-05-12· cited 4×
• Cox v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-11-15· cited 4×
• Randall v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1970-08-05· cited 3×
• State v. Childers
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-10-22· cited 1×
• Josey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-07-20· cited 1×