Beasley 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 competent, substantial evidence supported the trial court’s finding of the HAC aggravator where victim suffered blunt trauma to the head by a hammer and was not rendered immediately unconscious as evidenced by defensive injuries
• showing that severity of a murder victim’s injuries is probative of killer’s mens rea
• rejecting defendant’s argument that the murder was not HAC because the victim might have been rendered immediately unconscious by blows from a hammer where evidence of defensive wounds existed
• the finding that murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel was supported by evidence that the victim was brutally beaten while attempting to fend off blows to the head, before he was fatally shot
• finding blood- splatter patterns evidence of premeditation
• finding blood spatter patterns evidence of premeditation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-16· cited 164×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-21· cited 155×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-03· cited 87×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-02-14· cited 73×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 61×
• Ocha v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-27· cited 54×
• Durousseau v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-09· cited 54×
• Owen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-23· cited 53×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-03-20· cited 47×
• Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 46×
• A.P.R. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-01-21· cited 46×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-18· cited 38×
• Perry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-18· cited 38×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-08-21· cited 36×
• Troy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-19· cited 35×
• Bowles v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 34×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2006-06-01· cited 34×

Cites

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• State v. Law
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 545×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-03-13· cited 390×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-06· cited 309×
• State v. Mischler
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-03· cited 241×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• Brown v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-15· cited 129×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-10-27· cited 128×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 127×
• Heiney v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-15· cited 124×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-01-06· cited 120×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 108×