294 So. 2d 392 - Baxter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 1992
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Clinton v. State · Jordan v. State · 172 So. 2d 505 - Andrews v. State · Ivey v. State · Clinton v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"Evidence of the bad character of an accused is admissible only after he has introduced evidence of his good character. Machara v. State, Fla.App. 1973, 272 So.2d 870 ; 1 Wigmore on Evidence, § 57 (3rd Ed. 1940); 13 Fla.Jur., Evidence, § 154. However, when a witness, whether a party or not, and whether the case be civil or criminal, takes the witness stand he ipso facto places his credibility in issue. Ivey v. State, 132 Fla. 36 , 180 So. 368 (1938). * * * * * * Adverting to the case at bar, appellant became a witness in his own behalf and by so doing placed in issue his general reputation for truth and veracity. The state was then at liberty to attack his credibility by showing, not that his general character was bad, but that his reputation for truth and veracity was bad."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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