Brooks 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 prosecutorial denigration of a defendant’s mitigation by suggesting it is “phantom” is improper
• concluding that trial court abused its discretion in overruling defense counsel’s objection “that the prosecutor impermissibly argued ‘prosecutorial expertise’ ”
• concluding that trial court abused its discretion in overruling defense counsel’s objection “that the prosecutor impermissibly argued ‘prosecutorial expertise’ ”
• holding that, to prove trafficking, drug dealer or law enforcement officer may offer expert testimony as to weight pursuant to a visual inspection 5 if proper predicate has been laid
• holding that, in analyzing whether improper closing arguments require reversal, the court “considers the cumulative effect of objected-to and unob-jected-to comments when reviewing whether a defendant received a fair trial”
• finding that a prosecutor's repeated characterization of mitigating circumstances as \excuses\ was \clearly an improper denigration of the case offered by [the defendants] in mitigation.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-10-14· cited 545×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-10-17· cited 303×
• F.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-11· cited 200×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 119×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-06· cited 106×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Braddy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-15· cited 96×
• Rimmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-07-03· cited 92×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-01-06· cited 92×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-23· cited 85×
• Darling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-12· cited 84×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 83×
• Arbelaez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-01-27· cited 82×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 74×
• Hayward v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-12-10· cited 70×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-10-20· cited 69×
• Carroll v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-07· cited 65×
• Delhall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-12· cited 65×

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Newlon v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 261×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• Bertolotti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 198×
• United States v. James Earl Paiva
  First Circuit· 1989-12-21· cited 192×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 148×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 140×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-29· cited 114×
• San Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 109×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-01· cited 108×