Combs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• discussing the statutory role of the jury in the sentencing process in Florida
• rejecting ineffective assistance claim because the \presentation of an intoxication defense would have been inconsistent with Combs' testimony that he was at home at the time of the murder and did not commit the offense\
• rejecting Caldwell challenges to Florida's standard penalty-phase jury instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dugger v. Adams
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 432×
• Bottoson v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-24· cited 192×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 139×
• Roy Allen Harich v. Richard Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-04-21· cited 126×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-13· cited 120×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-19· cited 118×
• Teffeteller v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-03-04· cited 118×
• Sochor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-05-06· cited 103×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 97×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-05· cited 87×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 83×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-11· cited 81×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-01· cited 80×
• Larry Eugene Mann v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-04-21· cited 78×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-22· cited 74×
• Provenzano v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-26· cited 71×
• Owen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-01· cited 65×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Dobbert v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 1,651×
• Spaziano v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 1,061×
• Barclay v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 820×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• Pope v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-10-16· cited 230×
• Sireci v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 162×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• In re Trial Courts of the Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-16· cited 130×
• United States Gypsum Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 116×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-06-05· cited 90×