Upshaw 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 criminal defendant entitled to instruction on defense however \flimsy\ the evidence or however weak or improbable the testimony
• noting that “[a] defendant is entitled to an instruction on his theory of defense ‘however flimsy the evidence is which supports that theory” (quoting Arthur v. State, 717 So.2d 193, 194 (Fla. 5th DCA 1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gregory v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-08-16· cited 25×
• Santiago v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-25· cited 9×
• Mills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-07-02· cited 5×
• Brozey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-09-28· cited 4×
• Ortiz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-06· cited 3×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 93×
• Holley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-16· cited 30×
• Vazquez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-12-30· cited 20×
• Arthur v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-18· cited 18×
• Pittman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-04-11· cited 2×
• Martin v. Martin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-04-28· cited 1×