State v. Merritt

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that charged crimes were isolated incidents when they were activities defendant had never engaged in before, they took place in a relatively short span of time, and defendant did not have prior criminal history
• downward departure may be justified where state proves commission of an isolated incident committed in an unsophisticated manner for which defendant has shown remorse
• three sex acts involving a single victim were “isolated” because “they were something the defendant had never engaged in before, in his 25 year lifetime, and they took place in a relatively short span of time.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Stephenson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-11· cited 27×
• Staffney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-09-25· cited 25×
• State v. Salgado
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-11-08· cited 19×
• State v. Randall
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-13· cited 18×
• State v. Bleckinger
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-13· cited 17×
• Kezal v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-07-09· cited 11×
• State v. Fureman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-02-21· cited 10×
• State v. Arvinger
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-13· cited 9×
• State v. Fleming
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-12-01· cited 8×
• State v. Alonso
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-24· cited 6×
• State v. Baksh
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-05-17· cited 6×
• State v. Gilson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-12-07· cited 5×
• State v. Cummings
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-01-21· cited 5×
• State v. Lindsay
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-05-01· cited 3×
• Kilgore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-06-21· cited 1×
• STATE OF FLORIDA v. SHERRY CROSSLEY-ROBINSON
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-06-05· cited 1×
• State v. Sarah M. Hollinger
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-06-11
• State v. Ingram
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-02-05
• State v. Haywood
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-06-04

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Perkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-03-14· cited 149×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-12-06· cited 49×
• Quinn v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-09-29· cited 8×
• Ivory v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-10-03· cited 8×