Williams 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 it was fundamental error to instruct the jury using the pre-2005 duty to retreat instruction when the incident occurred after the enactment of the current Stand Your Ground law
• “ ‘[W]here ... a trial judge gives an instruction that is an incorrect statement of the law and necessarily misleading to the jury, and the effect of that instruction is to negate the defendant’s only defense, it is fundamental error and highly prejudicial to the defendant.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-07-08· cited 22×
• Richards v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-30· cited 17×
• Luis Rios v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-13· cited 14×
• Andujar-Ruiz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-11-16· cited 9×
• Wagner v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-01-11· cited 9×
• ASHLYN SALOMON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-03-20· cited 7×
• KRAMPERT v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-06-12· cited 4×
• Eady v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-10-20· cited 4×
• Simon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-06-09· cited 3×
• Lundberg v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-11-21· cited 3×
• Lawyer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-02-24· cited 1×
• Cuomo v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-24· cited 1×
• DANIEL MEDINA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-09-05
• STATE OF FLORIDA v. M. B. W.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-07-31

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-07· cited 117×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 79×
• Nardone v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-11-07· cited 75×
• Dessaure v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-02· cited 59×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-16· cited 55×
• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-05-22· cited 49×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-24· cited 33×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-04· cited 31×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-05-14· cited 28×
• Banks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-08-23· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-15· cited 13×
• Hedges v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-01-19· cited 10×