Cox 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 the State was required to prove the site of the drug sale was a school when the offense took place and evidence that it was a school two years earlier was insufficient
• holding the State was required to prove the site of the drug sale was a school when the offense took place and evidence that it was a school two years earlier was insufficient
• reversing for entry of judgment of acquittal on sale within 1,000 feet of school where competent, substantial evidence did not show location was school at time of offense
• reversing a conviction for sale of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school and remanding with directions to enter judgment for the lesser included offense of sale of cocaine
• reversing conviction under section 893.13(l)(c), Florida Statutes, because “the state failed to prove an essential element of the charged offense, i.e., that the offense was committed within 1,000 feet of a school”
• reversing the defendant’s conviction for sale of cocaine within 1000 feet of a school where the sole evidence that the facility was a school was an officer’s testimony that he saw children playing outside the building with adults present

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Whetstone v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-12-29· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-01-24· cited 2×
• Luther v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-08-26· cited 1×
• Neil J. Lemaster v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-30· cited 1×
• Jamarol D. Fletcher v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-07-07· cited 1×
• McDuffie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-19· cited 1×
• Wilder v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-09-24· cited 1×
• Aime v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-18· cited 1×
• Paul David Wilder v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-30
• Joachin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-03-28
• Thomas Andrew Vana, Jr. v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-09-05
• Adam Cole Crenshaw v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-09-19
• Trevoris Finley v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2026-02-25

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-06· cited 28×
• Sauls v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-10-04· cited 26×
• McKinney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-07-27· cited 22×
• Inmon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-04-23· cited 10×
• Smellie v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-11-04· cited 6×
• Stamps v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-07-08· cited 6×
• Hutchinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-08· cited 5×
• Hammond v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-01-15· cited 4×
• Lee v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-10-25· cited 3×
• Audano v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-29· cited 3×
• State v. Edwards
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-06-12· cited 1×
• In the Interest of J.P. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-10-16· cited 1×
• Whitaker v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-21· cited 1×