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5 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 44 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Brown v. State.

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1 Brown v. State Anchor
fla · 1960
green “the error must reach down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.” 21
2 Stewart v. State
fla · 1982
green “fundamental error occurs only when the omission is pertinent or material to what the jury must consider in order to convict.” 10
3 Brown v. State
fla · 1960
green “in order to be of such fundamental nature as to justify a reversal in the absence of timely objection the error must reach down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.” 6
4 Brown v. State
fla · 1960
green “must reach down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error.” 5
5 Gerds v. State
fla · 1953
green “correctly and intelligently instruct the jury on the essential and material elements of the crime charged and required to be proven by competent evidence.” 2

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