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.

• holding that collateral crime evidence may be admissible if it is relevant to a material issue in dispute
• holding that evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts is properly admitted when relevant to prove a material fact in issue
• holding that similar fact evidence relevant to a material fact at issue is admissible except where the sole relevancy of the evidence relates to the character or criminal propensity of the accused or where the evidence is otherwise precluded by the rules of evidence
• holding collateral crime evidence admissible if relevant to a disputed material issue
• holding similar fact evidence of commission of a collateral crime is inadmissible to prove bad character or criminal propensity but relevant similar fact evidence will not be excluded merely because it relates to the commission of a separate crime
• establishing rule governing the admissibility of evidence of other crimes, .wrongs, or acts that has since been codified in section 90.404(2)(a), Florida Statutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1,052 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Hugo Tejada v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-09-20· cited 305×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-10· cited 241×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-10-27· cited 182×
• Straight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-19· cited 174×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-16· cited 164×
• McDuffie v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-11-21· cited 161×
• State v. Esposito
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-02-07· cited 159×
• Sireci v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-06-10· cited 158×
• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Heuring v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 147×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• McLin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-09-12· cited 146×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 143×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 140×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 139×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• State v. Hatcher
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1979-06-25· cited 133×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lovely v. United States
  Fourth Circuit· 1948-08-10· cited 213×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1899-06-15· cited 157×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-07-25· cited 83×
• Roberson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1898-06-15· cited 83×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1886-06-15· cited 35×
• Selph v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1886-06-15· cited 31×
• Gluck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1952-12-22· cited 24×
• Langford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1894-01-15· cited 23×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-06· cited 19×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1924-01-07· cited 17×
• Ryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1922-05-19· cited 12×
• Winstead v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-11-28· cited 9×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-05-02· cited 9×
• Hutchinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-03-28· cited 8×
• State Ex Rel. Copeland v. Mayo
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-04-27· cited 6×
• Dixon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-07-02· cited 3×