Spencer 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 evidence that the defendant parked away from the victim’s house on the day of the killing, wore plastic gloves during attack, and carried a steak knife in his pocket, was inconsistent with a heat-of-passion killing
• holding “[t]he issue [of an improper comment] is preserved if the defendant makes a timely specific objection and moves for a mistrial.”
• where defendant objected, requested a mistrial, but did not request a curative instruction issue of improper prosecutorial closing argument preserved
• crimes separated by a substantial lapse of time can be causally related when “they all stem from the same underlying- dispute and involve the same parties”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 122×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 119×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-04· cited 117×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-29· cited 114×
• Conde v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-04· cited 112×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Henyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 101×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-18· cited 100×
• Coday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 94×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 93×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-06-05· cited 92×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 83×
• Pearce v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 83×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-23· cited 81×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-04-19· cited 80×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 79×

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-07-28· cited 315×
• Pope v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-10-16· cited 230×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 149×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 140×
• Forbes v. Holiday Corp. Savings & Retirement Plan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-03· cited 133×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 108×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Wilson Sporting Goods Co. v. David Geoffrey & Associates
  Supreme Court· 1990-11-26· cited 96×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 92×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-08-29· cited 83×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 71×
• Blair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-25· cited 63×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-16· cited 62×
• Kight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 60×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-01· cited 51×
• Waterhouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-20· cited 50×