Cook v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming the trial court’s rejection of a mitigating factor because the record contained positive evidence that the defendant’s mental capacity was not severely diminished on the night of the killings
• Onelia's murder was not heinous, atrocious, or cruel and was not committed to eliminate a witness
• trial judge is given wide discretion in determining validity of challenges for cause because the trial judge is in a superi- or position to evaluate responses to the questions propounded to jurors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Conde v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-04· cited 112×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Dingle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-15· cited 95×
• Coday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 94×
• Singleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-02-15· cited 85×
• Consalvo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 84×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-13· cited 80×
• Khadafy Kareem Mullens v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-06-16· cited 70×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-07-16· cited 38×
• Penn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 38×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-22· cited 36×
• Durocher v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-02-13· cited 28×
• Lott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-05-22· cited 26×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-16· cited 24×
• Rodney Tyrone Lowe v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-10-19· cited 24×
• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-10-01· cited 22×
• Chapman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-02-12· cited 17×

Cites

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

• Duncan v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 3,740×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Rosales-Lopez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1981-04-21· cited 771×
• Peters v. Kiff
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 657×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Singer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-02-13· cited 190×
• Rabinowitz v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-07-20· cited 152×
• United States v. Eduardo Jaime Rouco
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-07-15· cited 131×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-10-10· cited 126×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-26· cited 105×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 104×
• United States v. Roger R. Ploof and George J. Godin
  Second Circuit· 1972-07-03· cited 72×
• Scull v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-08· cited 65×
• Stano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-11-01· cited 62×
• Leon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 47×
• Randolph v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-12-20· cited 46×
• Johnson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-10-24· cited 33×
• State v. Berberian
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1977-06-20· cited 23×
• United States v. Stan Carlin
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-02-22· cited 21×
• State v. Gallegos
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1975-10-21· cited 21×