Burns v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that remarks made by the defendant in opening argument do not open the door for rebuttal testimony by a state’s witness where the matter has not been put in issue by the evidence at trial
• murder not especially heinous, atrocious or cruel where, during struggle with highway patrol trooper, motorist got hold of trooper’s revolver, stood over trooper and fired one fatal shot; “the wound would have caused rapid unconsciousness followed within a few minutes by death”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-02· cited 89×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-10· cited 75×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-22· cited 65×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 61×
• Wuornos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 60×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 44×
• Lucille Ruth Soffer, etc. v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-03-17· cited 40×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-15· cited 38×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-07· cited 37×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-04-18· cited 37×
• Cave v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-09-21· cited 37×
• Dillbeck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-04-21· cited 29×
• Buckner v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 26×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-11-02· cited 22×
• State v. Donovan
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1997-08-08· cited 15×
• Daniel Burns v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2013-07-08· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 1,415×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• South Carolina v. Gathers
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 540×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 126×
• Bush v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-11-29· cited 101×
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-22· cited 98×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• State v. Baird
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-29· cited 92×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-12-11· cited 89×
• Nixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-29· cited 85×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1961-10-25· cited 80×
• Haliburton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-05· cited 60×
• I. L. F. Y. Co. v. Temporary State Housing Rent Commission
  Supreme Court· 1962-05-21· cited 59×
• Bruno v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-03· cited 48×