Whitehead v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• elements of second-degree murder, in conjunction with an attempt to prevent an unlawful act, may constitute \unnecessary killing\ manslaughter
• omission from definition of justifiable homicide of theory relevant to defendant's case fundamental error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Palmes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-05· cited 117×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-30· cited 55×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-29· cited 42×
• William D. Cobb v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-02-04· cited 17×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-06-03· cited 15×
• Henry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-05-04· cited 11×
• Pouk v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-06-21· cited 11×
• Robinson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-11-05· cited 10×
• Gross v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-01-14· cited 7×
• Hood v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-12-14· cited 5×
• Carrizales v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-05-20· cited 5×
• Snell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-11-05· cited 3×
• Mitchell v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-02-27· cited 2×
• State v. Kadet
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-09-13· cited 2×
• Dawson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-04-24· cited 1×
• In re: Rozier
  Orange County Court· 1986-03-12

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1968-02-20· cited 442×
• Bagley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1960-04-05· cited 29×
• Burkhead v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-02-13· cited 18×
• Jerry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-08-09· cited 10×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1969-12-10· cited 4×