Cardona v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• one aggravating circumstance— HAC—and statutory mitigation still justified imposition of the death penalty for the murder of a three-year-old child
• while not allowing such evidence from children's guardian ad litem, court would allow the children themselves to testify and the defense to argue that it would be in the children's best interest if their father was not executed
• codefendant received immunity for her testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Loftin
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-08-08· cited 230×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Henyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 101×
• Singleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-02-15· cited 85×
• Consalvo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 84×
• Boler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 73×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• LaMarca v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-08· cited 61×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 58×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-03· cited 57×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-08-16· cited 57×
• Lukehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 54×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-11-06· cited 54×
• Offord v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-24· cited 53×
• Henyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-10· cited 44×
• Howell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-02-12· cited 36×
• Marquard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-11-21· cited 34×
• Ana Maria Cardona v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-02-18· cited 31×

Cites

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

• Dobbert v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 1,651×
• United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 1,415×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Tafero v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-26· cited 150×
• State v. Enmund
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 104×
• Corley v. Meese
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-22· cited 99×
• Tompkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-30· cited 95×
• Ellis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 92×
• Scott v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 58×
• Dobbert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-01-14· cited 56×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-01· cited 51×
• Diaz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-10-08· cited 40×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-12-16· cited 34×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-23· cited 34×
• Mordenti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-01-27· cited 27×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-28· cited 25×
• Nicholson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-06-04· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-13· cited 17×