Caruthers v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• death not proportionately warranted where defendant shot store clerk who jumped at him during robbery
• state did not establish aggravating circumstance that murder was committed to avoid or prevent arrest by proving victim knew assailant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-06-26· cited 102×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-09· cited 73×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Sliney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-17· cited 63×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-16· cited 62×
• Geralds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-30· cited 53×
• Sinclair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 51×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-02· cited 44×
• Perry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-10· cited 42×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-19· cited 40×
• Witt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-03-04· cited 40×
• Dougan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-05-30· cited 37×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-22· cited 35×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-07· cited 33×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-11-20· cited 27×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-28· cited 25×
• Puiatti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-08-21· cited 24×
• Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-10-19· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-09· cited 22×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-10-26· cited 157×
• Brown v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-15· cited 129×
• Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary
  Supreme Court· 1981-11-02· cited 94×
• Copeland v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-13· cited 48×
• Rembert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 38×
• Gorham v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-07-19· cited 30×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-06· cited 24×
• Booker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-11-17· cited 20×
• Biro Manufacturing Co. v. Aube
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-22· cited 2×