Merritt v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• remanding with directions to resentence for same crime without law enforcement officer enhancement
• conviction of a nonexistent crime is fundamental error mandating reversal even when error was invited by defendant, as by request for a jury instruction on a nonexistent offense
• “our supreme court did say [in Merritt that] ‘Section 784.07, Florida Statutes (1995
• reversing conviction for nonexistent crime of possession of stolen property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Barnum
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-09· cited 47×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-20· cited 26×
• Moore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-01-04· cited 13×
• Jordan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-12-21· cited 13×
• Gangapersad Ramroop v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-03-30· cited 10×
• King v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-07-28· cited 9×
• Mills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-12-20· cited 8×
• Oliveira v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 8×
• Mundell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-30· cited 6×
• Florida v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-07-09· cited 6×
• Mills v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-08-05· cited 5×
• J.S. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-04-07· cited 5×
• Darst v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-28· cited 3×
• Fessenden v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-10-29· cited 3×
• Ramroop v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-09-04· cited 3×
• H.E.S. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-24· cited 3×
• W.T.D. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-07-06· cited 3×
• Moore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-05-23· cited 2×
• Fussell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-01· cited 2×
• Miller v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-05-19· cited 2×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fredericks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-06-11· cited 16×
• State v. Crumley
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-03· cited 13×
• Crumley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-05-15· cited 8×
• Merritt v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-11· cited 2×