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 knowledge element was established where \marijuana was in a compartment in the dash in plain view\ of the defendant who was the driver of the truck
• holding that proof of the discovery of illegal drugs in plain view in the presence of two or more joint occupants of the premises is sufficient to support a conviction for constructive possession
• holding that proof of the discovery of illegal drugs in plain view in the presence of two or more joint occupants of the premises is sufficient to support a conviction for constructive possession
• holding that proof of the discovery of illegal drugs in plain view in the presence or two or more joint occupants of the premises is sufficient to support a conviction for constructive possession
• reversing constructive possession conviction when drugs were found in shoe box accessible to three people and State failed to present independent proof of defendant’s knowledge
• knowledge shown when marijuana, hashish and PCP scattered around house in plain view and defendant present at time contraband discovered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Chicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-24· cited 155×
• Dupree v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-07· cited 70×
• State v. Chandler
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1995-03-23· cited 66×
• Mario MacHin v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-04-25· cited 64×
• Jonathon Knight v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-03-10· cited 55×
• State v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-15· cited 51×
• Herrera v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-10-11· cited 33×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-04· cited 31×
• Agee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-04-06· cited 29×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-08-02· cited 28×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-14· cited 28×
• Duncan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-07-02· cited 26×
• Martoral v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-01-17· cited 24×
• State v. Paleveda
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-20· cited 23×
• Muwwakil v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-28· cited 23×
• S.B. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-07-12· cited 23×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-26· cited 22×
• Jean v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-06-15· cited 20×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-08-01· cited 20×
• Earle v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 19×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Frank v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1967-05-23· cited 141×
• Wale v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-04-29· cited 65×
• Hively v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-07-16· cited 65×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-09-26· cited 42×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-06-06· cited 34×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-04-14· cited 11×