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.

• noting that defendant planned to recoup gambling losses and all crimes discussed at trial were part of that scheme
• evidence of prior attempted robbery admissible to show the motive and intent of the defendants
• \These robberies were all committed in an attempt to recoup Booker's [accomplice] gambling losses.\
• “As long as the court considered all of the evidence, a trial judge’s determination of lack of mitigation will stand absent a palpable abuse of discretion.”
• “It is clear from the sentencing order that the trial court gave some weight to non-statutory mitigation; however, the trial court did not find that it rose to the level of this statutory mitigator. Accordingly, we find that the trial court did not abuse its discretion....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rutherford v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-12· cited 256×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 143×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-16· cited 116×
• Conde v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-04· cited 112×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 97×
• Coday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 94×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-04-19· cited 80×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-11-12· cited 74×
• Khadafy Kareem Mullens v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-06-16· cited 70×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-10-07· cited 68×
• Delhall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-07-12· cited 65×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 63×
• Mendoza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 57×
• Fernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-02-25· cited 57×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-06-28· cited 55×
• Victorino v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-11-25· cited 54×
• Ault v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-09-30· cited 53×
• Dorsett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-12-20· cited 51×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 49×

Cites

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

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Teague v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-01· cited 82×
• Howard v. California
  Supreme Court· 1992-10-19· cited 67×
• Provenzano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-10-16· cited 65×
• Wuornos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 60×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-11-09· cited 58×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-01-14· cited 56×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-10· cited 55×
• Atwater v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-09-16· cited 51×
• Green v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 44×
• Jaffer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-20· cited 44×