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.

• noting that the defendant was entitled to have jury instructed on his theory of defense even if the evidence was weak or improbable
• explaining that because a claim of self-defense involves “an admission and avoidance,” a defendant who claims that her injury of another was the result of an accident generally is not entitled to an instruction on self-defense
• defendant entitled to self defense instruction where defendant alleged that during the course of the altercation in which he was defending another, his knife slipped open and struck victim in the shoulder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Bozeman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-07-01· cited 30×
• Palmore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-07· cited 16×
• Keyes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-03· cited 14×
• Kiernan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-02-17· cited 10×
• Rockerman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-12-06· cited 9×
• McInnis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-23· cited 8×
• Belser v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-12· cited 6×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-03-30· cited 5×
• Stanley Dickerson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-10-28· cited 5×
• Curtis James Jackson v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-08-10· cited 3×
• Dwyer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-20· cited 3×
• Kristen Elizabeth Wagner v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-12-05· cited 1×
• Long v. Baker
  M.D. Florida· 2014-08-07
• Juan Javier Oquendo v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2025-10-09

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Holley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-12-16· cited 30×
• Foreman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1950-06-27· cited 22×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-03-11· cited 17×
• Pimentel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-06· cited 12×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-05-09· cited 7×
• Mills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-06-24· cited 7×
• Hunter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-19· cited 4×