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.

• defendant, a borderline defective eighteen-year-old, emotionally functioning as a disturbed child at time of murder, had an impoverished background and abusive parents
• defenseless police officer shot in the arm who pleads for mercy and is then killed by two shots in the head not heinous, atrocious, or cruel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rodgers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 102×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Torres-Arboleda v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-04-21· cited 93×
• Fenelon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-13· cited 93×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 93×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-02· cited 89×
• Consalvo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 84×
• Marvin Edwin Johnson v. Harry K. Singletary, Jr., Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-09-04· cited 79×
• Dan Edward Routly, Cross-Appellee v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-09-19· cited 59×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 56×
• Stevens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-10-05· cited 42×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-12-24· cited 39×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-22· cited 35×
• Santos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-09-26· cited 34×
• Lambert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1999-04-14· cited 29×
• Buckner v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 26×
• Street v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-03-31· cited 26×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-18· cited 24×
• Curtis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-10· cited 22×
• Marvin Edwin Johnson v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-08-21· cited 20×

Cites

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• People v. Harris
  California Supreme Court· 1984-04-20· cited 239×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-08· cited 161×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-10-26· cited 157×
• Odom v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-23· cited 96×
• Amazon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-13· cited 78×
• Illinois v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-14· cited 77×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-02-01· cited 63×
• Proffitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-05-28· cited 61×
• Ferry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-04-30· cited 60×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-02· cited 56×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-11-01· cited 53×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 39×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 36×