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 a prosecutor’s voir dire question asking whether jurors “[w]ould convict on the testimony of a person who has been granted immunity if the State [p]roves this case beyond a reasonable doubt” was improper
• date of offense significant where act of bribery occurred after proceeding before and vote by public official under statute requiring act to precede proceeding or vote
• bribery conviction could not be sustained where at time money was paid to defendant-city council member no questions, acts, or opinions were pending before council for vote

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-02-07· cited 29×
• Moody v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-15· cited 21×
• Nell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-04-11· cited 21×
• Harmon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-05-09· cited 14×
• Gaines v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-11-04· cited 11×
• Williams v. Christian
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-07-14· cited 8×
• Renney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-18· cited 5×
• Nell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-09-06· cited 4×
• Dilworth v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-12· cited 3×
• State v. Lopez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-03-29· cited 3×
• George v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-07-05· cited 1×
• Leibold v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-06-24· cited 1×