The Case Layer
verify-or-refuse16 seed cases for the evidence program. 2 are PINNED — loaded verbatim from the court's own published PDFs, hash-verified, quotable only through the needle floor. 14 are REFUSED — their official full text is not yet pinned at an official publisher, so this platform names them with their citations and quotes nothing. A refusal upgrades the day its official text pins; the honesty never does.
Not a citator — read this first
Everything on this page is as of 2026-08-03. Whether any case remains good law for a purpose — later treatment, distinguishing decisions, en banc or legislative responses — is verification work a licensed lawyer performs with a citator at matter time. This corpus serves verbatim text and refuses the rest.
Pinned — the court's own words, in the corpus
In re Amendments to the Florida Evidence Code, 278 So. 3d 551 (Fla. 2019)
Supreme Court of Florida · docket SC19-107 · Experts — the Daubert adoption
“we adopt the amendments to section 90.702 as procedural rules of evidence and adopt the amendment to section 90.704 to the extent it is procedural.”Read the whole opinion, verbatim →
Special v. West Boca Medical Center, 160 So. 3d 1251 (Fla. 2014)
Supreme Court of Florida · docket SC11-2511 · Civil harmless error
“the beneficiary of the error must prove that there is no reasonable possibility that the error complained of contributed to the verdict”Read the whole opinion, verbatim →
Refused — named, cited, never paraphrased
These citations stand on the record; their official full text is not yet in the corpus, so no sentence here speaks for them.
DeLisle v. Crane Co.
258 So. 3d 1219 (Fla. 2018)
Experts — the Frye/Daubert history the 2019 adoption superseded
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Dyer v. State
26 So. 3d 700 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010)
Best evidence — describing an unplayable recording's contents
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
T.D.W. v. State
137 So. 3d 574 (Fla. 4th DCA 2014)
Best evidence — testimony about an unintroduced recording
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
J.J. v. State
170 So. 3d 35 (Fla. 3d DCA 2015)
Best evidence — the live-feed observation distinction
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
State v. Eubanks
609 So. 2d 107 (Fla. 4th DCA 1992)
Best evidence — the doctrine's frame
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
McKeehan v. State
838 So. 2d 1257 (Fla. 5th DCA 2003)
Best evidence — the original-evidence rationale
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
State v. DiGuilio
491 So. 2d 1129 (Fla. 1986)
Criminal harmless error (the criminal lane routes to counsel)
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Tillman v. State
471 So. 2d 32 (Fla. 1985)
Preservation — the contemporaneous specific objection
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Steinhorst v. State
412 So. 2d 332 (Fla. 1982)
Preservation — the specific contention asserted below
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
League of Women Voters of Florida v. Detzner
172 So. 3d 363 (Fla. 2015)
Cited in preservation-duty debates — Florida authority on pre-suit preservation is split; read the opinions, not summaries
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Osmulski v. Oldsmar Fine Wine, Inc.
93 So. 3d 389 (Fla. 2d DCA 2012)
Third-party preservation and the written-request question — the court found no duty on its facts
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Pena v. Bi-Lo Holdings, LLC
304 So. 3d 1254 (Fla. 3d DCA 2020)
Loss versus failure to create — no sanction for evidence that never existed
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Golden Yachts, Inc. v. Hall
920 So. 2d 777 (Fla. 4th DCA 2006)
Spoliation remedies — adverse inference distinguished from presumption
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Martino v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
908 So. 2d 342 (Fla. 2005)
First-party spoliation claims against a defendant — the remedies question
official text not yet pinned — quoted nowhere on this platform
Software, not a law firm — legal information, not legal advice. How a case bears on your evidence is judgment work: an independent Florida attorney can review it and bill you directly. The statutes' own gates live on the Evidence Command Center.