Ford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that CCP was supported by the facts that in the course of events, Ford had to stop to reload his rifle and that during the course of the murders, Ford assaulted the victims with three different weapons: a gun, a blunt instrument such as an ax, and a knife
• argument that burden was met by proving defendant's faculties were lessened instead of impaired was reversible error
• “It is within the court’s discretion to control the comments made to a jury, and a court’s ruling will be sustained on review absent an abuse of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-10-14· cited 545×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• McWatters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-03-18· cited 98×
• Braddy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-15· cited 96×
• Deparvine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 95×
• Pearce v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 83×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 83×
• McMillan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-12-27· cited 75×
• Schoenwetter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-27· cited 71×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-10· cited 69×
• Tanzi v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-10· cited 65×
• State v. Steele
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-02-02· cited 54×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-03-27· cited 48×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 48×
• Toney Deron Davis v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 48×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-18· cited 46×
• Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 46×
• Robards v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-04-25· cited 38×
• Diaz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-11· cited 36×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-12-16· cited 292×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-09-30· cited 130×
• Trease v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-17· cited 127×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 127×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-04· cited 117×
• DuBoise v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 88×
• Duest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-10· cited 82×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 77×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-02· cited 68×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-12· cited 59×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-13· cited 42×
• Valle v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-02· cited 31×
• Kormondy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-12-24· cited 27×