Downs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in only instructing the jury that the defendant would received credit for time served
• concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in only instructing the jury that the defendant would received credit for time served
• \[W]e reject the claim that the jurors should have been instructed to consider any lingering doubt they may have had about Downs being the triggerman.\
• shooter in cold-blooded contract murder appropriately received death penalty even though less culpable codefendant received life
• codefendant convicted of third-degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Dunlap
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1999-03-08· cited 165×
• Downs v. McNeil
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-03-24· cited 158×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-08-11· cited 122×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Henyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 101×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-05-20· cited 96×
• J.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-01-22· cited 85×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Downs v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-26· cited 69×
• Bonifay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 62×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-08-16· cited 57×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-11-12· cited 47×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 46×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-18· cited 39×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-11-26· cited 38×
• Snipes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-22· cited 36×

Cites

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Miller v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-09· cited 1,316×
• Franklin v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1988-09-15· cited 852×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• David W. McKay v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-06· cited 757×
• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-30· cited 256×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Sireci v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 162×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-21· cited 100×
• Kelley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-10· cited 98×
• Slater v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-06-25· cited 94×
• Combs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-30· cited 71×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-24· cited 42×
• Barfield v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-06-11· cited 36×
• Hoffman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-22· cited 33×
• Downs v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-09· cited 29×