Foster 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 denial of the motion to preclude the death penalty which Barwick incorporated by reference into his own motion
• following McCleskey and rejecting statistics-based claim based on practices of specific county prosecutors’ office because defendant “has offered nothing to suggest that the state attorney’s office acted with purposeful discrimination in seeking the death penalty in his case”
• Espinosa error harmless where victim was beaten and stabbed to death after begging for mercy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Isley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-03· cited 269×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-05-20· cited 96×
• Barwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 90×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-02-14· cited 73×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-03· cited 69×
• Atwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-09-16· cited 51×
• Peterka v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-04-21· cited 45×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 43×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-16· cited 39×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-18· cited 38×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 33×
• Zeigler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-11-04· cited 33×
• Nixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-20· cited 28×
• Jordan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-17· cited 21×
• Ragan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-12· cited 21×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 20×
• Rooney v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-08-08· cited 16×
• Hartley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-01-11· cited 16×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-02· cited 16×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-11· cited 4,496×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Washington v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-07· cited 3,450×
• Swain v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-08· cited 3,183×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Castaneda v. Partida
  Supreme Court· 1977-03-23· cited 1,507×
• United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 1,415×
• Georgia v. McCollum
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-18· cited 1,235×
• Alexander v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1972-04-03· cited 889×
• Bottoson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-01· cited 793×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• Turner v. Fouche
  Supreme Court· 1970-01-19· cited 642×
• State v. Neil
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-27· cited 507×
• Traylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-16· cited 375×
• Shell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-29· cited 353×