Bright v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that in order to preserve a claim of improper comment, counsel must raise an appropriate objection at the time of the comment
• finding error where trial court found prior violent felony aggravator twice based on 1990 robbery conviction and contemporaneous murder of other victim and accorded it great weight twice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-12-06· cited 59×
• Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 46×
• Knight v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-01-18· cited 25×
• State of Florida v. Raymond Bright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-06-16· cited 18×
• Marvin Cannon v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-09-24· cited 16×
• & SC14-2106 Thomas Bevel v. State of Florida and Thomas Bevel v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-06-15· cited 15×
• Terence Tobias Oliver v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-04-06· cited 12×
• Gregory David Larkin v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-22· cited 11×
• Brandon Lee Bradley v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-03-30· cited 6×
• Jean-Philippe v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-06-13· cited 6×
• Pierre v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-05-09· cited 6×
• Espute v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-04-11· cited 4×
• Whigham v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-06· cited 2×
• Scott Thomas Hicks v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-27
• Raymond Bright v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-04-02
• Benjamin Davis Smiley, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-05-14
• Marlin L. Joseph v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2022-02-10
• Hicks v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-12-27
• Raymond Bright v. State of Florida & Raymond Bright v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2026-02-26

Cites

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

• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Banks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 258×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 143×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• State v. Cumbie
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-02-21· cited 91×
• Frances v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-11· cited 87×
• Nixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-29· cited 85×
• Bobby Marion Francis v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-07-24· cited 83×
• Buzia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Tanzi v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-10· cited 65×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-12-24· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-20· cited 59×
• Dessaure v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-12-02· cited 59×
• Knowles v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-12-16· cited 58×
• Offord v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-24· cited 53×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 43×