Perkins 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 cocaine trafficking was not a forcible felony so as to preclude the defense of self-defense when the killing occurred during an attempt to traffic in cocaine
• addressing whether the offense of attempted trafficking in cocaine is a forcible felony pursuant to section 776.08

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Hearns
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-04-26· cited 186×
• Department of Law Enf. v. Real Property
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-12-02· cited 162×
• Martinez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-02-21· cited 123×
• Kasischke v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 122×
• Lamont v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-12-24· cited 111×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 92×
• B.H. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-23· cited 86×
• Giles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-18· cited 81×
• Mays v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-07-16· cited 78×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-10· cited 75×
• United States v. Eddy Wilmer Vail-Bailon
  Eleventh Circuit· 2017-08-25· cited 75×
• Bouters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-27· cited 69×
• Polite v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-09-27· cited 65×
• Richardson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-14· cited 57×
• Westerheide v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-09-29· cited 54×
• Weiand v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-03-11· cited 53×
• Overstreet v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-12-16· cited 53×
• Marshall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-16· cited 51×
• State v. Hackley
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-05· cited 46×
• Little v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-04-10· cited 44×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Palmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 230×
• Borges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-04-08· cited 116×
• State v. Valentin
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-01-13· cited 96×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-12-17· cited 82×
• Lewingdon v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 81×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-12-06· cited 49×
• State Ex Rel. Lee v. Buchanan
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1966-10-05· cited 48×
• In Re Estate of Greenberg
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-10-30· cited 47×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-04-05· cited 46×
• Scull v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-08· cited 42×
• Gluesenkamp v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-10-16· cited 29×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-02· cited 27×
• State v. Amaro
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-08-31· cited 16×
• Bowes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-12-23· cited 15×
• Ruiz v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-02· cited 15×
• State v. Moo Young
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-09-21· cited 7×
• State v. Perkins
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-04-03· cited 5×