Vazquez 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 defendant who requests a jury instruction on the theory of his defense is entitled to have it, so long as there is evidence in the record to support that theory
• the failure to give a requested self-defense instruction held fundamental error where the evidence warranted the instruction
• failure to give a requested self-defense instruction was fundamental error where the evidence warranted the instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Giles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-18· cited 81×
• Wright v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-21· cited 32×
• Martinez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-05-10· cited 26×
• Arthur v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-18· cited 18×
• Lusk v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-09-30· cited 13×
• Kiernan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-02-17· cited 10×
• Ramsubhag v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-09-13· cited 9×
• Lynch v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-06· cited 6×
• Hickson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-12-14· cited 5×
• Upshaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-04-28· cited 5×
• Shells v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-21· cited 5×
• Graves v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-04· cited 4×
• State v. Manno
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-08-15· cited 3×
• Brimmer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-04-12· cited 2×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-04-12· cited 1×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-30· cited 1×
• Dames v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-07

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Sanford v. Rubin
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1970-07-01· cited 197×
• Cruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-03-07· cited 140×
• Lomax v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-03-31· cited 58×
• Holley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-16· cited 30×
• Dudley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-11-04· cited 12×
• Weller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-08-13· cited 9×