No judgment shall be set aside or reversed, or new trial granted by any court of the state in any cause, civil or criminal, on the ground of misdirection of the jury or the improper admission or rejection of evidence or for error as to any matter of pleading or procedure, unless in the opinion of the court to which application is made, after an examination of the entire case it shall appear that the error complained of has resulted in a miscarriage of justice. This section shall be liberally construed.
Fla. Stat. § 59.041
Harmless error; effect
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case 315 So. 2d 461 - Proffitt v. State (1975)
Most recently applied in Hardwick v. State (December 1996)
History.--s. 1, ch. 6223, 1911; RGS 2812; CGL 4499; s. 14, ch. 67-254
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Online Sunshine (Florida Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Florida statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.