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State v. DiGuilio

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Citation
491 So.2d 1129
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
159 of 159
Citing cases (total)
2,705

Status

Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. State v. DiGuilio remains good law: all 159 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated its harmless-error rule. Diaz v. State abandoned an intermediate court's practice of using DiGuilio's appellate test for a postconviction ineffective-assistance claim; that practice came from Davis v. State, not DiGuilio.
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The other reviewed opinions applied or reaffirmed DiGuilio, reported its treatment of older decisions, or directed adverse language at another issue. The Florida Supreme Court expressly reaffirmed DiGuilio's test for preserved trial error and later quashed an intermediate appellate ruling that had declined to apply it to a Confrontation Clause violation.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

2,705 later cases cite State v. DiGuilio; 159 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 159 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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