Carter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that only evidence of organic brain damage came from testimony by defendant's cousin
• holding a “contemporaneous objection at trial is required before [the Florida Supreme Court] will entertain any issue based on Booth” and rejecting the claim “without reaching its merits”
• rejecting a \robbery gone bad\ argument where the trial court found three aggravators: (1) under sentence of imprisonment; (2) prior violent felonies—armed robbery and murder; and (3) commission during a robbery
• affirming death sentence where the trial court found three aggravating circumstances of committed while under a sentence of imprisonment, committed during a robbery, and prior violent felony conviction, and one nonstatutory mitigating circumstance of a deprived childhood

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-16· cited 116×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 114×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Duest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-26· cited 79×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Peede v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-01-11· cited 58×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-02· cited 44×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 44×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-11-13· cited 41×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 40×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-14· cited 27×
• Ponticelli v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-10-10· cited 22×
• Marquard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-09· cited 16×
• Bottoson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-31· cited 15×
• John Steven Huggins v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-10-09· cited 12×
• Weems v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-11-30· cited 11×
• & SC16-341 Renaldo Devon McGirth v. State of Florida & Renaldo & Devon McGirth v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-01-26· cited 11×
• Bottoson v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-07-08· cited 9×
• Castro v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-09-02· cited 7×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Fowler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-12-08· cited 83×
• Combs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 70×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 50×
• Herzog v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-22· cited 46×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-11-23· cited 35×
• Burr v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-02-14· cited 31×
• Burr v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1985-10-07· cited 30×