Jefferson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is a homicide committed during the perpetration of a felony, if the homicide is part of the res gestae of the felony.”
• the accidental discharge of the defendant’s gun in the course of a robbery, resulting in the victim’s death, constitutes felony murder
• victim of robbery killed by robber's accidental discharge of gun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-18· cited 100×
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-22· cited 98×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-02· cited 76×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-12-01· cited 76×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1969-06-11· cited 57×
• Atkins v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-04-13· cited 33×
• Simpson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-06-11· cited 29×
• Mills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-12-08· cited 27×
• State v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1971-10-27· cited 20×
• Christopher Dean v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-08-31· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-05-31· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-03-04· cited 17×
• Silver v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-03-16· cited 17×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-08-21· cited 17×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-05-18· cited 16×
• State v. Williams
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-02-07· cited 15×
• Moore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-08-31· cited 15×
• Sims v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-03-09· cited 15×
• State v. Snowden
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-05-11· cited 13×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-11-16· cited 212×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-11-21· cited 93×
• Holland v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1897-01-15· cited 58×
• Spanish v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1950-04-14· cited 17×
• Freeman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1958-04-11· cited 12×