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.

• refusing to apply a new rule retroactively because it would entail hearings with “evidence possibly long since destroyed, misplaced, or deteriorated” and witnesses who “may not be available or [whose] memory might be dimmed”
• refusing to apply a new rule retroactively because it would entail hearings with “evidence possibly long since destroyed, misplaced, or deteriorated” and witnesses who “may not be available or [whose] memory might be dimmed”
• refusing to apply a rule in part because it “would not enhance the reliability of the fact-finding process [and] . . . has no bearing on guilt and did not involve an attack on the fairness of the trial”
• \It was reasonable... to rely upon [the old] law. That significant reliance has been placed on the old rule is an important factor supporting [exclusively] prospective application of the new rule.\
• \[T]he standards established in Witt are fully applicable to noncapital cases.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• John F. Mosley v. State of Florida & SC14-2108 John F. Mosley v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-22· cited 151×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 124×
• Mark James Asay v. State of Florida, SC16-102 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc. & SC16-628 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-22· cited 110×
• Commonwealth v. Schaeffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-29· cited 76×
• Barrios-Cruz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-06-10· cited 68×
• Geter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-27· cited 64×
• Chandler v. Crosby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-10-06· cited 34×
• State v. Will
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-09· cited 17×
• State v. Austin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-09-01· cited 7×
• Hargrave v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-01-13· cited 6×
• Morris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-11-09· cited 3×
• Matthew Dettle v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2024-10-24
• Anthony Floyd Wainwright v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2025-06-03

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Linkletter v. Walker
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 2,898×
• Barber v. Page
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 1,846×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×
• United States v. White
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-17· cited 1,155×
• United States v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-21· cited 1,037×
• United States v. Caceres
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-13· cited 883×
• Witt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-07-24· cited 342×
• State v. Sarmiento
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-15· cited 82×
• Tollett v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-01-10· cited 35×
• Markham v. Markham
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-01-31· cited 22×
• Hoberman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-31· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-11-29· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-12-08· cited 3×