Ferrell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding death proportionate where the only aggravator was a prior violent felony conviction for second-degree murder (weighty) and a number of nonstatutory mitigating circumstances that were all assigned little weight
• finding death sentence proportionate where the trial court found a single aggravator of prior violent felony conviction based on second-degree murder and several nonstatutory mitigating circumstances
• finding death proportionate where the only aggravator was a prior violent felony conviction for second-degree murder, and where a number of nonstatutory mitigating circumstances were found and assigned little weight
• affirming death sentence where sole aggravator was prior second-degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Darling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 134×
• Rodgers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 102×
• Frances v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-11· cited 87×
• Singleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-02-15· cited 85×
• Buzia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-19· cited 76×
• Almeida v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 75×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-20· cited 59×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-03· cited 57×
• Lukehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 54×
• Ocha v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-27· cited 54×
• Durousseau v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-09· cited 54×
• Bevel v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-03-20· cited 49×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-30· cited 33×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-09-22· cited 32×
• Jorgenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 31×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-31· cited 29×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-11-02· cited 28×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-12-22· cited 26×
• Hess v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-17· cited 22×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-16· cited 65×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-05-25· cited 37×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 29×
• Lemon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-07-19· cited 28×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-21· cited 27×
• Harvard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-04-15· cited 25×