Mercer 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 failing to instruct on an essential element of a crime constituted fundamental error
• “[T]he standard jury instructions are intended only as a guide and cannot relieve the trial court of its responsibility to charge the jury correctly in each case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reed v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-05-01· cited 26×
• Cardenas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-07· cited 15×
• Leveritt v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-05-07· cited 12×
• Young v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-03-21· cited 12×
• Petrucelli v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-15· cited 9×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-12-31· cited 4×
• Leveritt v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 1×
• Mathis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-10-21
• KIANTE AHMAD JACKSON v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2020-01-22
• Shearer v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-04-17
• Cortez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-25
• Poole v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-08-14

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Steele v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-05-07· cited 35×
• Mariano v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-10· cited 2×