387 So. 2d 978 - Diaz v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2015
22 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 351 So. 2d 972 - McArthur v. State · 71 So. 2d 899 - Mayo v. State · Ferguson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The defendant's direct testimony concerning the victim's threats and his menacing approach together with the defendant's assertion that he was in fear of his life made out a prima facie case of self defense under Section 776.012, Florida Statutes (1977). The state presented no evidence to rebut the defendant's direct testimony that he acted in self defense nor was it able to diminish his testimony on cross-examination. Under these circumstances, only those inferences properly arising out of the state's testimony in chief could be considered to rebut the defendant's assertion of self defense. In this posture, that evidence, circumstantial in its entirety, was woefully inadequate to rebut the direct testimony that the defendant committed homicide in self defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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