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.

• holding that prosecutor’s comment stating that the “basic issue” in the case was whether the jury believed the State’s witness or the defendant constituted improper comment on the defendant’s failure to testify in his own behalf
• comment that the basic issue was witness credibility — whether the jury would believe the State’s witnesses or the defendant
• prosecutor's opening statement comment that the basic issue is whether the jury is going to believe the State's witness or the defendant amounts to comment on defendant's later failure to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Pierce
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-04-27· cited 96×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-02-07· cited 29×
• Crawford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-11-17· cited 20×
• State v. Turner
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1981-08-10· cited 10×
• Gilbert v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-07-19· cited 8×
• Roberts v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-13· cited 2×
• Fussell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-08-30· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Simmons v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-03-18· cited 6,700×
• Coleman v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 1,808×
• Trafficante v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-01-23· cited 83×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-07-31· cited 35×
• Ashford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-02-21· cited 25×
• Rowe v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1924-01-10· cited 25×
• Singleton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-02-04· cited 20×
• Grech v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-01-19· cited 14×
• Settle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-01-25· cited 11×