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.

• explaining that a life felony is limited to that class of felonies for which one may be punished “by a term of imprisonment for life or for a term of years not less than 30” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• distinguishing between first-degree felonies punishable by “a term of years not exceeding life” and life felonies, punishable by “a term of imprisonment for life or for a term of years not less than 30.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bentley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-07· cited 41×
• Beech v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-07· cited 7×
• Lowery v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-08-11· cited 5×
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-26· cited 5×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-08-31· cited 3×
• Willis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-05-18· cited 3×
• McNeil v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-22· cited 3×
• Stewart v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-10-26· cited 2×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-03-10· cited 1×
• Lunford v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-05· cited 1×
• Flynn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-10-30· cited 1×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-02-08· cited 1×
• Pittman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-09· cited 1×
• Holly Elizabeth Caudle v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-08-16

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Villery v. Florida Parole & Probation Com'n
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-23· cited 274×
• Goodson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-08-14· cited 34×
• Cunningham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-07-01· cited 26×
• Dade County v. Goldstein
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-05-13· cited 16×
• Olcott v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-20· cited 15×
• Russell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-07-09· cited 3×
• Blue v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-09-02· cited 2×
• Holmes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-10-07· cited 1×