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.

• a defendant is entitled to have the jury instructed on the law applicable to his theory of defense if there is any evidence to support it, no matter how disdainfully the judge may feel about the merits of such defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-09-02· cited 27×
• Duckett v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-03-30· cited 22×
• Heddleson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-06-17· cited 17×
• Marvin Cannon v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-09-24· cited 16×
• Khalid Ali Pasha v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-05-11· cited 13×
• Saavedra v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-11-10· cited 11×
• Walker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-03-21· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-05-19· cited 9×
• Marrero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-12-24· cited 9×
• Alberto Santiago Sanchez Defuentes v. Richard L. Dugger, Robert Butterworth
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-02-08· cited 7×
• Austin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-07-29· cited 7×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-03· cited 7×
• Ramsaran v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-12-13· cited 7×
• Verdult v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-09· cited 4×
• Bradley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-04-08· cited 1×
• McCray v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-12-24· cited 1×
• Kennedy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-02
• Ivory v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-19

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Laythe v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-04-06· cited 16×
• Hudson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-03-25· cited 9×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-01-04· cited 6×