JONAS GRIFFIN, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• State v. Primus Hayes, 333 So. 2d 51 (Fla. 4th DCA 1976)
  …(Fla.1974). In Florida the District Courts of Appeal are courts of final appellate jurisdiction except for a narrow classification of cases made reviewable by the Florida Supreme Court, Ansin v. Thurston, 101 So. 2d 808 (Fla.1958); Taylor v. Knight, 234 So. 2d 156 (1st DCA Fla.1970). The District Courts of Appeal are required to follow Supreme Court decisions. Hoffman v. Jones, 280 So. 2d 431 (Fla.1973). As an adjunct to this rule it is logical and necessary in order to preserve stability and predictability i…
• Time, Inc. v. Firestone, 279 So. 2d 389 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973)
  …d avoid the needless additional steps condemned in Zirin v. Charles Pfizer & Co., supra. We also note that the litigants are not entitled to a written opinion on each or any point as a matter of constitutional right. Taylor v. Knight, Fla.App.1970, 234 So. 2d 156. Without laboring the matter further, if it was the intendment of the Supreme Court to cause this court to reconsider its earlier decision and to write an opinion on each of the points supporting our decision, we must most respectfully decline upon…
• Elliott v. Elliott, 648 So. 2d 137 (Fla. 4th DCA 1994)
  …egree of confidence with the bar (and particularly with the losing party) that the review is no less thorough, whether the result is a per curiam affirmance with or without a written opinion. As the late Judge Rawls pointed out in Taylor v. Knight, 234 So. 2d 156 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970): This Court and not the attorney for the losing party is charged with the responsibility of deciding which cases merit and warrant a full written opinion upon the basis of that opinion’s contribution to the jurisprudence of this…

Authorities Cited

• State v. Major Hines, 195 So. 2d 550 (Fla. 1967)