Knight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• summarily denying the claim that Florida had forfeited its right to execute Knight under binding norms of international law
• “Finally, Knight claims that to execute him after he has already endured more than two decades on death row is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Doorbal v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-30· cited 122×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Braddy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-15· cited 96×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-02-23· cited 89×
• Chamberlain v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-06-17· cited 88×
• Pearce v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 83×
• Leon Davis, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-11-10· cited 82×
• Waterhouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-31· cited 81×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-04-19· cited 80×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-19· cited 76×
• Keen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 74×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-02-14· cited 73×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-21· cited 71×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-10· cited 69×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-22· cited 65×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Hitchcock v. Dugger
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-22· cited 760×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-02-24· cited 404×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Melbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-05· cited 356×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 200×
• Bertolotti v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 198×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Rolling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-20· cited 128×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-13· cited 117×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-04· cited 117×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-29· cited 114×
• Gudinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 111×