Nicks v. State

Decided January 27, 1987. John Malcolm Patterson wrote the opinion for the court.

521 So. 2d 1018 · Cited 113 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Dockery v. State · 114 So. 2d 394
• Beck v. State · 396 So. 2d 645
• Mason v. State · 66 So. 2d 557
• Cox v. State · 465 So. 2d 1215
• Smith v. State · 210 So. 2d 826
• Ex Parte Waldrop · 459 So. 2d 959
• Noble v. State · 45 So. 2d 857
• Harnage v. State · 274 So. 2d 352
• Snead v. State · 8 So. 2d 269
• McDonald v. State · 329 So. 2d 583
• Tillison v. State · 27 So. 2d 43
• McMurtrey v. State · 74 So. 2d 528
• Blackwell v. State · 88 So. 2d 347
• Watson v. State · 93 So. 2d 750
• Braden v. State · 268 So. 2d 877
• Hardy v. State · 286 So. 2d 899
• Thomas v. State · 181 So. 337
• Drake v. State · 57 So. 2d 817
• West v. State · 312 So. 2d 45
• People v. Hall · 308 Ill. 198
• Ex Parte Womack · 435 So. 2d 766
• Ex Parte Bush · 431 So. 2d 563
• Twilley v. State · 472 So. 2d 1130
• Miller v. State · 405 So. 2d 41
• Nelson v. State · 511 So. 2d 225

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• Jackson v. State · 674 So. 2d 1318
• Guthrie v. State · 616 So. 2d 914
• Nicks v. State · 783 So. 2d 895
• Clemons v. State · 720 So. 2d 961
• Bradley v. State · 577 So. 2d 541
• Howell v. State · 627 So. 2d 1134
• Madden v. State · 628 So. 2d 1050
• Harris v. State · 828 So. 2d 879
• Bankhead v. State · 585 So. 2d 97
• Perkins v. State · 808 So. 2d 1041
• Wilson v. State · 777 So. 2d 856
• Peraita v. State · 897 So. 2d 1161
• Gamble v. State · 791 So. 2d 409
• Wilson v. State · 142 So. 3d 732
• Burgess v. State · 811 So. 2d 557
• Centobie v. State · 861 So. 2d 1111
• Barksdale v. State · 788 So. 2d 898
• Presley v. State · 770 So. 2d 104
• Lane v. State · 564 So. 2d 90
• Tariq-Madyun v. State · 59 So. 3d 744
• McClain v. State · 26 So. 3d 491
• Alexander v. State · 987 So. 2d 643
• Williams v. State · 710 So. 2d 1276
• Taylor v. State · 666 So. 2d 36
• Bush v. State · 695 So. 2d 70

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