Brennan v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• ruling that imposition of death sentence on a sixteen-year-old defendant constitutes cruel or unusual punishment under Florida Constitution
• holding that the trial court did not err when it allowed expert testimony from a medical examiner regarding “the victim’s cause of death, despite the fact that the expert did not perform the autopsy” because the medical examiner made independent conclusions using objective evidence
• death penalty may not be applied to one under sixteen

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-07-06· cited 64×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-08-16· cited 57×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-25· cited 49×
• Linn v. Fossum
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-11-02· cited 45×
• Hurst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-18· cited 35×
• Randy W. Tundidor v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-04-27· cited 28×
• State Ex Rel. Simmons v. Roper
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2003-08-26· cited 27×
• Strand v. Escambia County
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-18· cited 23×
• State v. Ira
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2002-01-24· cited 23×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-07· cited 20×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-11-07· cited 13×
• Phillips v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-02-06· cited 12×
• Kevin G. Jeffries, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-07-13· cited 11×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-07-13· cited 6×
• Carter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-11-25· cited 5×
• Vasquez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-01-19· cited 3×
• State v. Brooks
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-08-06· cited 3×
• Bryant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-05-12· cited 3×

Cites

46 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Trop v. Dulles
  Supreme Court· 1958-03-31· cited 2,182×
• Gore v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 885×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Thompson v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-29· cited 617×
• Stanford v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 438×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Holly v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-02-08· cited 206×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• Polyglycoat Corp. v. Hirsch Distrib., Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-27· cited 113×
• State v. Furman
  Washington Supreme Court· 1993-09-30· cited 113×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-06-26· cited 102×
• Ex Parte Hart
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-11-25· cited 100×
• Geralds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-02-22· cited 99×