Brown 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 the defendant could not be convicted of felony murder where the jury acquitted the defendant of the underlying felony
• holding that the defendant could not be convicted of felony murder where the jury acquitted the defendant of the underlying felony
• recognizing that relief may be 31 granted on “truly inconsistent” verdicts in a criminal trial, “those in which an acquittal on one count negates a necessary element for conviction on another count”
• “An inconsistent verdicts claim presents a pure question of law and is reviewed de novo.”
• ―An inconsistent verdicts claim presents a pure question of law‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State of Tennessee v. Marlo Davis
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2015-06-03· cited 175×
• State Of Iowa Vs. David John Halstead
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2010-12-17· cited 68×
• Price v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-06-09· cited 66×
• Givens v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2016-08-22· cited 26×
• People v. Ware
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2019-10-08· cited 22×
• In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES— REPORT NO. 2013-03
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-08-28· cited 17×
• JOSHUA ZELAYA v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-10-17· cited 15×
• Gerald v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-02-13· cited 12×
• Proctor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-09-21· cited 10×
• State v. McGhee
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-08-14· cited 9×
• Shavers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-02· cited 7×
• Pleasant Grove City v. Terry
  Utah Supreme Court· 2020-10-29· cited 6×
• Colletti v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-19· cited 5×
• In Re STANDARD JURY INSTRUCTIONS IN CRIMINAL CASES—REPORT NO. 2013-02
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-24· cited 5×
• People v. Doubleday
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-08-30· cited 5×
• State v. Ramos
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-30· cited 5×
• In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2017-06.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-02-08· cited 4×
• Conrad v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-03-28· cited 3×
• Flores v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-15· cited 2×
• In Re: Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases-Report 2018-08.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-12-13· cited 2×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mahaun v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-12-13· cited 92×
• Redondo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-23· cited 75×
• Gonzalez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-11-16· cited 49×
• State v. Powell
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-05-30· cited 47×
• Eaton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-29· cited 33×
• Pitts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-01-06· cited 24×
• Dial v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-15· cited 13×
• Cuevas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-01· cited 4×
• State v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-08· cited 1×