Larkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an invalid finding of the HAC aggravating circumstance was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt in light of the remaining valid aggravating circumstances
• noting that HAC and CCP are \two of the most serious aggravators set out in the statutory sentencing scheme\
• stating that a defendant's sentence is controlled by the law in effect at the time he committed the offense
• observing that the appellant’s “sentence is controlled by the law in effect at the time he committed this offense”
• finding two weak aggravators were outweighed by thirteen significant mitigating circumstances
• \[HAC and CCP] are two of the most serious aggravators set out in the statutory sentencing scheme....\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-10-14· cited 545×
• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Darling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 134×
• Doorbal v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-30· cited 122×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-11· cited 119×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Conde v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-04· cited 112×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Deparvine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 95×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-07-05· cited 94×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-05· cited 87×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-23· cited 85×
• 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×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-06· cited 81×
• Duest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-26· cited 79×

Cites

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

• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-13· cited 105×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-10-17· cited 92×
• Shellito v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-11· cited 69×
• Kramer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 63×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-10· cited 62×
• Mendoza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 57×
• DeAngelo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-08· cited 51×
• Mungin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-09-07· cited 49×
• Hughes v. City of Cleveland
  Supreme Court· 1997-10-06· cited 43×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-19· cited 40×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-30· cited 37×
• Mason v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
  Supreme Court· 1998-10-05· cited 37×
• Hayes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-23· cited 34×
• Jorgenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-06-11· cited 31×
• Carter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-10-19· cited 28×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-05-31· cited 20×

Other cases named Larkins v. State

17 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-05-11· cited 51×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-04-13· cited 42×
• Larkins v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2018-10-26· cited 38×
• Larkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-10-29· cited 11×
• Larkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-10-27· cited 7×
• Larkins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1964-03-05· cited 2×
• Larkins v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1992-07-21
• Larkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-01-30
• Larkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-06-13
• Larkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2017-08-15
• Larkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-13
• Larkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-11-07
• Larkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-07-25
• Larkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-18
• Larkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-02-11
• Larkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-06-26
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2026-04-21