Wilkins 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 trial court erred by keeping juror who stated his family’s similar experience “shouldn’t make any difference [in his decision], but [he] couldn’t definitely say whether it would”
• stating that evidence that the defendant and his wife considered having an abortion of a baby-victim who was born and died later as “excludable . . . as . . . an impermissible assault on the defendant’s character and was otherwise irrelevant and inflammatory”
• calling evidence that the defendant and his wife considered having an abortion of the baby-victim “excludable ... as ... an impermissible assault on the defendant’s character and was otherwise irrelevant and inflammatory”
• calling evidence that the defendant and his wife considered having an abortion of the baby-victim \excludable ... as ... an impermissible assault on the defendant's character and was otherwise irrelevant and inflammatory\
• calling evidence that the defendant and his wife considered having an abortion of the baby-victim “excludable . . . as . . . an impermissible assault on the defendant’s character” and “otherwise irrelevant and inflammatory”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-12-17· cited 43×
• Marquez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-12-02· cited 7×
• Stephenson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-03· cited 6×
• Segura v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-22· cited 6×
• ROBERT E. GREATHOUSE v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2023-09-27
• Peter Sciallo v. the State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-09-18
• Akers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2025-02-19

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Singer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-02-13· cited 190×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• State v. Savino
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-10-04· cited 73×
• Leon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 47×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 41×
• King v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-31· cited 20×
• United States v. Robert Joseph Vosper
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-05-02· cited 19×
• Chapman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-07-13· cited 14×
• Dibble v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-07-15· cited 13×
• Donaldson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-04-19· cited 12×
• Salazar v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-08-07· cited 11×
• Armstrong v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-11-07· cited 10×
• Blye v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-09-11· cited 7×
• Rolle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-05-17· cited 6×
• Elkin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-09-13· cited 5×
• Banks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-26· cited 5×
• McClain v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-12-02· cited 4×
• Bouchard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-02-16· cited 3×