Hernandez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that, since Miller was decided, Florida’s district courts have uniformly observed that Miller “opened a breach in Florida’s sentencing statutes”
• upholding attempted first degree murder conviction where defendant confessed to intending to murder his victim and whose overt acts consisted of entering a bathroom stall, putting on a hat and gloves, and repeatedly insisting that the would-be victim join him in the stall
• “Under Miller, while a sentence of life without parole remains constitutional in homicide cases, the sentencing court must be free to impose a lesser sentence when the defendant’s youth or the circumstances of the crime so indicate.”
• adopting the reasoning of Washington

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State of Florida v. Anthony Duwayne Horsley, Jr.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-03-19· cited 174×
• State of Minnesota v. Mahdi Hassan Ali
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-10-08· cited 60×
• Dewey Hylor v. United States
  Eleventh Circuit· 2018-07-18· cited 26×
• Horsley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-08-30· cited 26×
• Thomas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-04-16· cited 19×
• Copeland v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-01-17· cited 6×
• Neely v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-04-17· cited 5×
• Brighton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-04-16· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-07-10· cited 4×
• Javarous Dawson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-16· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-06-05· cited 3×
• Leroy Mackey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-07-23· cited 2×
• Montes-Valeton v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-03-12· cited 1×
• Hernandez v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-05-16

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Miller v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 2012-06-25· cited 6,816×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Graham v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 2010-05-17· cited 3,477×
• Griffith v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-13· cited 3,380×
• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-03-13· cited 390×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• State v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-27· cited 106×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-18· cited 100×
• B.H. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-23· cited 86×
• McCray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-07· cited 73×
• Waldrup v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-21· cited 68×
• Geter v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-09-27· cited 64×
• State v. Fleming
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-02-03· cited 50×
• Hernandez-Alberto v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-09-23· cited 36×
• State v. Ortiz
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-08-23· cited 35×
• Washington v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-11-05· cited 31×
• Bist v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-04-09· cited 30×
• Espiet v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-24· cited 29×