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.

• \[The judge] may ask questions to clarify the issues but he should not lean to the prosecution or defense lest it appear that his neutrality is departing from center.\
• Trial judge \may ask questions to clarify the issues but he should not lean to the prosection [sic] or defense lest it appear that his neutrality is departing from center.\
• Trial judge \may ask questions to clarify the issues but he should not lean to the prosection [sic] or defense lest it appear that his neutrality is departing from center.\
• Trial judge “may ask questions to clarify the issues but he should not lean to the prosection [sic] or defense lest it appear that his neutrality is departing from center.”
• prosecutorial comments which are not inflammatory or egregious do not necessitate a new trial
• sole evidence linking defendant to a holdup-murder was that the defendant bought the murder weapon in a pawn transaction some 2 1/2 years prior to the murder, which weapon was also used in a subsequent holdup-shooting about a month after the charged murder; murder conviction reversed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

61 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Donald M. Wingate v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, State of Florida
  Fifth Circuit· 1972-07-25· cited 128×
• Crain v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-28· cited 106×
• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-07-07· cited 103×
• Coppolino v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-11-08· cited 59×
• Drake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-10-27· cited 43×
• McFadden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-04-28· cited 34×
• Andrews v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-03-02· cited 33×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1966-07-27· cited 32×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-09-07· cited 30×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-12-21· cited 29×
• Owens v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-02-08· cited 27×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-02-26· cited 24×
• Marion v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-01-08· cited 24×
• Long v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-06· cited 23×
• LaMonte v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1962-10-24· cited 22×
• Barnhill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-06-06· cited 22×
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-07-09· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-05-05· cited 19×
• Norris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1963-12-05· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-05· cited 16×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-11-16· cited 171×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-01-27· cited 78×
• Diecidue v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-05-24· cited 15×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-01-15· cited 2×