Floyd 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 trial counsel was not deficient for strategically limiting unnecessary objections to avoid irritating the jury
• “Floyd did not raise an Ake claim in his direct appeal and, therefore, this claim is procedurally barred.”
• “Trial counsel’s investigation into mental health mitigation is not rendered incompetent merely because the defendant has now secured the testimony of a more favorable mental health expert.”
• “There is no Brady violation where the information is equally accessible to the defense and the prosecution, or where the defense either had the information or could have obtained it through the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
• “This Court has held that ‘[i]f a legal issue “would in all probability have been found to be without merit” had counsel raised the issue on direct appeal, the - 24 - failure of appellate counsel to raise the meritless issue will not render appellate counsel’s performance ineffective.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-06-27· cited 51×
• Troy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-01-06· cited 48×
• Wickham v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-05-02· cited 36×
• Barwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-30· cited 30×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-11-18· cited 26×
• Richard Allen Johnson v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-01-09· cited 17×
• Crain v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-10-13· cited 16×
• John Steven Huggins v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-10-09· cited 12×
• & SC12-2465 Brett A. Bogle v. State of Florida & Brett A. Bogle v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-02-09· cited 11×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-09-12· cited 11×
• & SC13-2422 Gerhard Hojan v. State of Florida & Gerhard Hojan v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-01-31· cited 8×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-12· cited 8×
• State of Florida v. Thomas D. Woodel
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-06-05· cited 7×
• Pinkney Carter v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-07-02· cited 7×
• Rodgers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-05-09· cited 6×
• Andrew Richard Allred v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-01-14· cited 5×
• Ferguson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-10-31· cited 5×
• Faust v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-08-15· cited 4×
• & SC13-1675 Todd Zommer v. State of Florida &
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-01-15· cited 3×
• Janard Orange v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-09-03· cited 2×