Nelson 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 it was fundamental error to convict Nelson of a crime the essential elements of which were not prima facie established by the evidence
• holding that a person may not be convicted of a crime that never occurred
• holding that because an officer was not engaged in the lawful execution of a legal duty when the defendant obstructed or opposed him, the defendant’s conduct did not constitute the crime of resisting an officer
• holding that because an officer was not engaged in the lawful execution of a legal duty when the defendant obstructed or opposed him, the defendant's conduct did not constitute the crime of resisting an officer
• reversing conviction as fundamental error because defendant's conduct did not constitute the crime of which he was convicted
• reversing conviction as fundamental error because defendant’s conduct did not constitute the crime of which he was convicted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• F.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-11· cited 200×
• J.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-01-22· cited 85×
• Slydell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-29· cited 62×
• S.G.K. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-07-11· cited 58×
• Harris v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-07-29· cited 35×
• Griffin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-28· cited 34×
• F.E.C. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-11· cited 26×
• Burrell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-26· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-11-09· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-10· cited 16×
• Perry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-02-13· cited 9×
• Hornsby v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-09-25· cited 9×
• Stanley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-10-27· cited 7×
• Santiago v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-06-11· cited 7×
• Breedlove v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-09-30· cited 7×
• J.B. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-02-18· cited 7×
• Otero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-11-14· cited 6×
• Patel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-09-17· cited 5×
• Britt v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-05-20· cited 4×
• Ruben B. Casais v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2016-11-18· cited 4×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-11-26· cited 33×
• Dydek v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-17· cited 32×
• Wilson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-07-01· cited 17×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-05· cited 16×
• C.K. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-04-22· cited 12×