Kight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• analyzing probable impact of newly discovered evidence on penalty phase under second prong of Jones in successive postconviction motion
• “[D]isparate treatment of codefendants is permissible in situations where a particular defendant is more culpable.”
• “[I]n instances where the codefendant’s lesser sentence was the result of a plea agreement or prosecutorial discretion, this Court has rejected claims of disparate sentencing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Kormondy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-13· cited 61×
• Marek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-07-16· cited 55×
• Kokal v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 50×
• Wade v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-06· cited 48×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-25· cited 30×
• Krawczuk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-04-12· cited 26×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 23×
• Robert Pernell McCloud v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-11-17· cited 18×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-03-11· cited 14×
• Kevin G. Jeffries, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-07-13· cited 11×
• Bucknor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-09-19· cited 2×
• Buckins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2012-06-20
• Carissa Parker v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2024-10-30
• Carissa Parker v. State of Florida
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-01-02
• Harold Lee Harvey, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2026-06-18

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Espinosa v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 324×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-07-01· cited 322×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-14· cited 320×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-17· cited 305×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Slater v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-06-25· cited 94×
• San Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-12-24· cited 91×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-27· cited 60×
• Kight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 60×
• Melendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-11-12· cited 60×
• Scott v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-23· cited 58×
• Kight v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-29· cited 35×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 26×
• Hazen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-04· cited 21×
• Steinhorst v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-05-26· cited 11×