Dorsey 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 evidence insufficient to support second-degree murder where defendant shot two people as an “impulsive overreaction” to being attacked at a keg party
• evidence was insufficient to support second degree murder conviction where defendant, after being confronted by a number of heavily intoxicated men, and punched in the face by victim, impulsively overreacted by shooting
• defendant barred from firearm possession could not invoke Stand Your Ground law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Little v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-04-10· cited 44×
• Antoine v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-07· cited 30×
• Garrett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-22· cited 26×
• Harvey M. Hill v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-16· cited 20×
• John Thomas Dorsey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-10-08· cited 20×
• Morgan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-11-22· cited 18×
• Darling v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-02-29· cited 16×
• Kyree Luis Perez v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-04-12· cited 13×
• State v. Frias
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2021-04-21· cited 13×
• James Wyatt McGriff v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-04-07· cited 9×
• State v. Hill
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-15· cited 8×
• Miles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-02-06· cited 7×
• Sandhaus v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-01-29· cited 5×
• State v. Alan M. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2020-07-08· cited 4×
• John Henry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-20· cited 3×
• Funchess v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-06· cited 2×
• Antonio Devon Williams v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-06-08· cited 1×
• Seymour v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-01-14· cited 1×
• James Wyatt McGriff v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-02-02
• Ryals v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-15