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 a no- contest plea is not permissible unless “the legal issue to be determined on appeal is dispositive of the case”
• indicating that the nature of a non- dispositive issue makes it, “in effect, an interlocutory appeal,” whereby “the defendant faces the prospect of a trial even if he prevails on appeal”
• holding competency is not a dispositive issue
• a conditional nolo plea is permissible only when the legal issue to be determined on appeal is dispositive of the case
• “Because of the nondispositive nature of the appeal, the defendant faces the prospect of a trial even if he prevails on appeal. The inevitable is not avoided but merely postponed, thus further burdening the already severely taxed resources of our courts.”
• “[T]o avoid a mini-trial on the sufficiency of the evidence in each case involving a confession, we hold that as a matter of law a confession may not be considered dispositive of the case for purposes of an Ashby nolo plea.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Finney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-10-05· cited 48×
• Morales v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-12-15· cited 41×
• Login v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-02-17· cited 39×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-03-28· cited 31×
• Phuagnong v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-06-15· cited 29×
• State v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-29· cited 27×
• Falco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-12-17· cited 26×
• Morgan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-04-01· cited 26×
• Jody Stanley, Jr. v. Louie L. Wainwright, Etc., Eddie L. Brown v. Louie L. Wainwright, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-10-11· cited 25×
• James Rodney Rutledge v. Louie L. Wainwright, Etc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-09-17· cited 22×
• Zeigler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-06-18· cited 21×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-09-02· cited 20×
• Houston v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-03-31· cited 16×
• Vaughn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-31· cited 16×
• A.E.K. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-07· cited 15×
• In the Interest of S.T.N. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-08-28· cited 14×
• Gainer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-12-09· cited 13×
• State v. Maier
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-28· cited 13×
• Hardison v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-07-09· cited 12×
• Everett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-12-21· cited 12×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Ashby
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-01-06· cited 186×
• United States v. Jerry Bradford Cox, United States of America v. Doss Foreman, Jr., United States of America v. Maurice Rose
  Sixth Circuit· 1972-07-18· cited 55×
• Reyes v. Kelly
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1969-06-11· cited 25×
• United States v. Charles Allen Matthews
  Fourth Circuit· 1973-02-06· cited 23×
• Ronald Lee Abram v. United States
  Third Circuit· 1968-07-25· cited 18×
• Tiller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-04-30· cited 17×
• United States v. Marvin T. Karger
  First Circuit· 1971-03-29· cited 15×
• United States v. Stephen L. Soltow
  Tenth Circuit· 1971-06-22· cited 12×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-01-31· cited 11×
• Fullard v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-12-20· cited 9×
• First Amendment Foundation of Florida v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-10-12· cited 7×
• United States v. Albert P. Moretti
  Second Circuit· 1965-11-26· cited 5×