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.

• explaining that necessarily-included offenses are those that are “an essential aspect of the major offense,” meaning that “the burden of proof of the major crime cannot be discharged, without proving the lesser crime as an essential link in the chain of evidence”
• “There should be an instruction on all lesser offenses which are covered by the accusatory pleading and supported by the evidence, even though the major crime charged could otherwise be established without proof of the lesser offense”
• now a category 2 offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Novak
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-09-22· cited 347×
• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-30· cited 256×
• Bould v. Touchette
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-07-28· cited 164×
• State v. Wimberly
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-11· cited 137×
• In re Trial Courts of the Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-16· cited 130×
• Palmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-05· cited 117×
• Borges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-04-08· cited 116×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 104×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-07-12· cited 91×
• State v. Weller
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-07· cited 84×
• Hagans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1989-06-30· cited 83×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-08· cited 81×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1970-10-28· cited 68×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-12-16· cited 67×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-10-25· cited 63×
• James Dupree Henry, Cross-Appellant v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Corrections, Cross-Appellee
  Fifth Circuit· 1981-11-12· cited 60×
• Coppolino v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-11-08· cited 59×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 59×
• DeLaine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1972-05-03· cited 58×
• Dobbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-01-14· cited 56×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-11-16· cited 212×
• Tyus v. Apalachicola Northern Railroad Company
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-05-17· cited 87×
• Hand v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-05-17· cited 39×
• Flagler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1967-03-01· cited 37×
• Birge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-20· cited 32×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-03-23· cited 31×
• Killen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-20· cited 31×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1915-04-27· cited 31×
• Clemmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1901-01-15· cited 25×
• Foreman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1950-06-27· cited 22×
• Arnold v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1955-07-15· cited 21×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-05-31· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-08-30· cited 13×
• Adams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-07-18· cited 2×