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 the alleged error \did not permeate or saturate the trial with such basic invalidity as to lead to a reversal regardless of a timely objection\
• explaining that fundamental error is error that reaches “down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the alleged error”
• in order for an error to be considered fundamental, it must reach down into the validity of the trial itself to the extent that a verdict of guilty could not have been obtained without the assistance of the error
• “For an error to be so fundamental that it can be raised for the first time on appeal, the error must be basic to the judicial decision under review and equivalent to the denial of due process.”
• articulating the standard for fundamental error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1968-02-20· cited 442×
• Castor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-12-19· cited 419×
• State v. Delva
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-21· cited 308×
• State v. Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-04-08· cited 288×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-19· cited 206×
• F.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-11· cited 200×
• Carratelli v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-05· cited 165×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-21· cited 123×
• Harrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-10· cited 120×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 119×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-19· cited 118×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-29· cited 114×
• Maddox v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-13· cited 105×
• Deparvine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 95×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-12· cited 89×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 83×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 74×
• Garzon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-04-10· cited 74×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-10-20· cited 69×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-17· cited 960×
• Pait v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-11· cited 83×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-01-27· cited 78×
• Killen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-02-20· cited 31×
• Rhodes v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1864-07-01· cited 20×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-06-29· cited 19×
• Henderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1945-01-23· cited 18×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-01-27· cited 14×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-10-09· cited 10×
• State v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1960-02-10· cited 7×
• Sinnefia v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-02-18· cited 3×