Songer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting contention that a defendant's interpretation of circumstantial evidence should be accepted completely unless it is specifically contradicted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Barclay v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 820×
• John A. Spinkellink, 1 v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-08-21· cited 403×
• Charles William Proffitt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-09-17· cited 259×
• Ford v. Strickland
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-01-07· cited 223×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 95×
• McCaskill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 88×
• Amazon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-13· cited 78×
• Douglas v. Wainwright
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-09-19· cited 77×
• People v. Tenneson
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-04-02· cited 74×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 71×
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-09-03· cited 64×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 53×
• Mikenas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-11-09· cited 52×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-21· cited 52×
• Canaan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-07-28· cited 52×
• Holmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-04-26· cited 40×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-08-26· cited 39×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-11-22· cited 144×
• Larry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-07-11· cited 89×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-07-03· cited 23×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-09-20· cited 5×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-04-17· cited 4×
• Harrell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-03-16· cited 2×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-05· cited 1×