Cochran 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 prosecutor committed fundamental error by appealing to the jurors’ emotions rather than to a rational review of the evidence
• holding that there were inconsistencies in parts of the defendant’s and his wife’s testimony and the evidence that could allow the jury to reject the defendant’s assertion of self-defense
• multiple improprieties in a prosecutor's closing argument may reach \the critical mass of fundamental error.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-06· cited 106×
• McArthur v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-12-21· cited 22×
• Barnes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-26· cited 20×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-08-01· cited 20×
• Rivera v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-01-31· cited 20×
• Miller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-28· cited 18×
• Brazill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-05-14· cited 16×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-24· cited 15×
• Leasure v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-24· cited 14×
• Marco A. Rodriguez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-02-10· cited 10×
• Phillips v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-07-21· cited 7×
• Thornton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-20· cited 6×
• Davis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-09-13· cited 4×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2017-01-04· cited 4×
• State v. Mathis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-05-10· cited 2×
• Tina Lasonya Brown v. State of Florida & Tina Lasonya Brown v. Mark S. Inch, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-08-27
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-08-06

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• State v. Delva
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-21· cited 308×
• Bertolotti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 198×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 140×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-29· cited 114×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 83×
• Ryan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-19· cited 55×
• Peterson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-12-05· cited 53×
• Pacifico v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-29· cited 51×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1923-12-17· cited 44×
• Thompson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-08-22· cited 39×
• Edwards v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-03-22· cited 35×
• Redish v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-05-04· cited 33×
• Fuller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-03-16· cited 22×
• Green v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1982-01-20· cited 18×
• State v. Ramos
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-05-15· cited 16×
• Camarano v. United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
  Supreme Court· 1997-10-06· cited 16×
• Breniser v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-09-12· cited 12×
• Knight v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-04-24· cited 12×
• Tuff v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-07-29· cited 11×