Aaron v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that criminal contempt is a common-law crime in Florida and, accordingly, the maximum punishment, by statute, is one year in prison and a $500.00 fine
• criminal contempt proceedings effectively criminal in nature and persons accused entitled to basic constitutional rights
• “The right of persons accused of serious offenses to know, before trial, the specific nature and detail of crimes they are charged with committing is a basic right guaranteed by our Federal and State Constitutions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

72 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bowen v. Bowen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-20· cited 319×
• Pugliese v. Pugliese
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-06-09· cited 124×
• Crain v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-28· cited 106×
• Andrews v. Walton
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-03-24· cited 65×
• McDonald v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-11-07· cited 60×
• State v. Passmore
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2005-02-22· cited 47×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-30· cited 45×
• Speller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-12-18· cited 36×
• State v. Coney
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-04-17· cited 34×
• Krueger v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-08-02· cited 33×
• AA v. Rolle
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 33×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-18· cited 23×
• Deter v. Deter
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-12-20· cited 22×
• Floyd v. Bentley
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-10-03· cited 22×
• Martinez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-12-01· cited 22×
• Blalock v. Rice
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-09-10· cited 20×
• Whirley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-17· cited 19×
• Milton Wolfe v. Gerald Coleman, Sheriff Pinellas County Florida and Jim Smith, Attorney General of the State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-08-02· cited 18×
• G.L.D. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-12-16· cited 18×
• O'NEAL v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-02-12· cited 16×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Bloom v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 1,167×
• Baldwin v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-22· cited 789×
• Cheff v. Schnackenberg
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 438×
• United States v. Barnett
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-08· cited 198×
• State v. Gillespie
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1969-10-31· cited 45×
• State Ex Rel. Argersinger v. Hamlin
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1970-06-03· cited 40×
• The PEOPLE v. Stollar
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1964-05-20· cited 17×
• State Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Board of Control
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1955-10-19· cited 9×
• Aaron v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-05-02· cited 3×
• State ex rel. Brocato v. Purdy
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-08-10· cited 1×