Echols 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 manslaughter was a lesser included offense that was three steps removed from first degree murder where the jury, if inclined to exercise its “pardon” power, could have returned verdicts of second-degree or third-degree murder
• evidence lawfully obtained by Indiana police was admissible in Florida even though search would have been illegal under Florida law
• defendant was fifty-eight years old at the time of the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ramirez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 250×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Torres-Arboledo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-24· cited 137×
• State v. Engel
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1991-07-02· cited 137×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-04· cited 117×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-06-05· cited 90×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• Armstrong v. Dugger
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-11-23· cited 71×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-07· cited 63×
• Sliney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-17· cited 63×
• Lebron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-01· cited 63×
• Perry v. Maryland
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1999-12-10· cited 59×
• Mungin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-09-07· cited 49×
• Bill Paul Marquardt v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-01-22· cited 47×
• Rety v. Green
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-08-01· cited 46×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-08-28· cited 41×
• LeCroy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-10-20· cited 33×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-19· cited 32×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-27· cited 30×

Cites

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

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• United States v. Janis
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-04· cited 1,453×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• State v. Abreau
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-05-26· cited 198×
• People v. Rogers
  California Supreme Court· 1978-06-16· cited 187×
• Lambright v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-09· cited 186×
• Jent v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-12-03· cited 173×
• Lusk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-26· cited 162×
• Sireci v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 162×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1899-06-15· cited 157×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-10-27· cited 128×