Wright 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 when the only relevance of an out-of-court statement is to prove the truth of the matter asserted, the statement is hearsay and is not rendered admissible when the nonhearsay purpose for which it was admitted is not relevant to the issues in dispute
• flight instruction may be given only when supported by the evidence
• “The episode involving the battery charges was wholly distinct from the episode involving murder and burglary. Each episode involved different offenses, different victims, different times and dates, different places, and different circumstances.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Munson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1996-01-25· cited 171×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Westerheide v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-17· cited 152×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 140×
• Rolling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-20· cited 128×
• Gudinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 111×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• Fenelon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-13· cited 93×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 92×
• Keen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 74×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-22· cited 73×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-09· cited 73×
• Dupree v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-07· cited 70×
• Smithers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-16· cited 64×
• Dorsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-12-18· cited 50×
• Washington v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2000-11-22· cited 50×
• Timothy W. Fletcher v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-06-25· cited 35×
• Marshall v. Crosby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-05-26· cited 29×
• Standard Jury Inst. in Cr. Cases No. 2006-2
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 26×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-20· cited 26×

Cites

35 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Alexander v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-03· cited 889×
• Bullington v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-04· cited 875×
• Norris v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-01· cited 711×
• Arizona v. Rumsey
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-29· cited 589×
• State v. Neil
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-27· cited 507×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• Poland v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 338×
• State v. Slappy
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-10· cited 333×
• Galloway Farms, Inc. v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-27· cited 217×
• Ree v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-19· cited 179×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Bundy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-21· cited 113×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Amazon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-13· cited 78×
• State v. Castillo
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-20· cited 77×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 71×
• Odom v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-02-05· cited 70×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-20· cited 64×