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.

• requiring that an “unambiguous” rule “be accorded its plain and ordinary meaning”
• \Our courts have long recognized that the rules of construction applicable to statutes also apply to the construction of rules.\
• \Our courts have long recognized that the rules of construction applicable to statutes also apply to the construction of rules.\
• “Our courts have long recognized that the rules of construction applicable to statutes also apply to the construction of rules.”
• \Court rules are construed under the same principles of construction that apply to statutes.\
• “[T]he rules of construction applicable to statutes also apply to the construction of rules.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-12· cited 97×
• Saia Motor Freight Line, Inc. v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-11· cited 66×
• Metcalfe v. Lee
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-04-04· cited 20×
• Bulgin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-05-19· cited 17×
• Jupiter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-11-15· cited 13×
• State v. McCullers
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-31· cited 12×
• STATE, DOT v. Southtrust Bank
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-11-15· cited 10×
• Contrera v. UNEMPLOYMENT APPEALS COM'N
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-12-10· cited 8×
• Wheaton v. Wheaton
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-02-15· cited 8×
• Cason Ex Rel. Saferight v. Hammock
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-06-24· cited 7×
• Baden v. Baden
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-11-14· cited 5×
• State v. Ducharme
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-08-20· cited 4×
• State of Florida v. S.A., a child
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-02-13· cited 4×
• Citizens Property Ins. Corp. v. Calonge
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-04-18· cited 4×
• State v. J.G.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-02-13· cited 4×
• Hajal v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-02· cited 2×
• Self v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-02-25· cited 2×
• Pole v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-08-10· cited 2×
• State v. Schreiber
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-02-04· cited 1×
• Florida Highway Patrol, etc. v. Lashonta Renea Jackson, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-01-23

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-24· cited 527×
• Thayer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 425×
• Wheeler v. Meggs
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-05-13· cited 181×
• Van Pelt v. Hilliard
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-03-08· cited 126×
• Singletary v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-10-29· cited 100×
• Genden v. Fuller
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-03· cited 41×
• McDonald v. Roland
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-05-05· cited 34×
• In Re Florida Rules of Criminal Procedure
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-02-24· cited 32×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-04-05· cited 28×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-01-19· cited 26×
• Merchants' National Bank v. Grunthal
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1897-01-15· cited 26×
• State v. Agee
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-10-16· cited 20×
• D.K.D. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-06· cited 14×
• Vallieres v. Grossman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-01-23· cited 10×
• Dorian v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-06· cited 7×
• Tascarella v. Seay
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-07-05· cited 7×
• Heller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-28· cited 5×
• J.T. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-09· cited 4×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-23· cited 1×