Adams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that victim's murder by strangulation was HAC and noting that Court has found this method of homicide to be HAC
• finding that victim's murder by strangulation was HAC and noting that Court has found this method of homicide to be HAC
• fear and emotional strain preceding victim's death may be considered as contributing to heinous nature of capital felony
• “Acts which would have constituted rape or attempted rape [now] constitute a sexual battery or attempt to commit sexual battery . . . .”
• eight-year-old girl strangled, mitigating circumstances of emotional disturbance outweighed by aggravating circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pulley v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,080×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Dugger v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 432×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• William Duane Elledge v. Richard L. Dugger
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-07-20· cited 215×
• Hardwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 198×
• State v. Fulminante
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-07-11· cited 146×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 126×
• Adams v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Et Al.
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-13· cited 125×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-04· cited 117×
• State v. Beaty
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-11-01· cited 115×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-05-06· cited 103×
• Aubrey Dennis Adams v. Louie L. Wainwright, and Jim Smith
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-06-17· cited 101×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-18· cited 100×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-02-28· cited 100×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Tompkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-30· cited 95×

Cites

32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 404×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 200×
• Hogge v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 158×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-10-26· cited 157×
• Brown v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-15· cited 129×
• Awkard v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 122×
• Alvord v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-09-17· cited 113×
• Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary
  Supreme Court· 1981-11-02· cited 94×
• Frazier v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-11-21· cited 93×
• Larry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1958-07-11· cited 89×
• Alford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-01-29· cited 88×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-09-30· cited 87×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-01-31· cited 67×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-05-12· cited 66×
• Kampff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-29· cited 64×
• Burch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-03-10· cited 51×
• Robles v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1966-07-08· cited 48×