Douglas v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a person who kills in the heat of passion is “intoxicated by his passion” and in a “condition of frenzy and distraction” (quoting Disney v. State, 72 Fla. 492, 73 So. 598, 601 (1916))
• explaining that “a jury can find a defendant who has killed in the heat of passion guilty of either second degree murder or manslaughter” (emphases added; citation omitted)
• explaining that a person who kills in the heat of passion is “intoxicated by his passion” and in a “condition of frenzy and distraction” (quoting Disney v. State, 73 So. 598, 601 (Fla. 1916))
• \[A] jury can find a defendant who has killed in the heat of passion guilty of either second degree murder or manslaughter. . . .\
• “[A] jury can find a defendant who has killed in the heat of passion guilty of either second degree murder or manslaughter....”
• “[A] jury can find a defendant who has killed in the heat of passion guilty of either second degree murder or manslaughter . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-05· cited 94×
• Patrick Albert Evans v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-11-12· cited 38×
• Villella v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-13· cited 13×
• Paz v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-29· cited 8×
• Semenec v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-09-03· cited 5×
• Daley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-04-04· cited 4×
• BRYAN PATRICK AUGUSTIN v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-06-13· cited 2×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-17· cited 1×
• Roger Allen Rozzelle v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-02-29
• Patrick Albert Evans v. State of Florida Corrected Opinion
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-12-10
• BURNIE REED v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-12-11
• Burke v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-08

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Disney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1916-12-19· cited 29×
• State v. McCall
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-05-12· cited 25×
• Dupree v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-01-11· cited 23×
• Auchmuty v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-03-04· cited 19×
• Rivers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1918-03-07· cited 14×
• Whidden v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1912-06-15· cited 11×
• Billeaud v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-04-04· cited 8×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1975-05-30· cited 8×
• People v. Falls
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-09-25· cited 4×