Lawrence v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding death sentence based on three aggravating factors (under sentence of imprisonment, previous violent felony, and pecuniary gain) and evidence of the defendant's mental and emotional disturbance and drug and alcohol abuse as a mitigating factors
• where the prosecutor equated the jury's sentencing task to \God's judgment of the wicked\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Deparvine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 95×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-05· cited 87×
• Singleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-02-15· cited 85×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-19· cited 76×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-22· cited 65×
• Farina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-07-06· cited 64×
• Mendoza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 57×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 38×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-18· cited 14×
• Torres v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-11-06· cited 10×
• Abreu v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-24· cited 7×
• Cowan v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-11-06· cited 2×
• Hillenbrand v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-07-11· cited 1×
• & SC16-922 Terry Marvin Ellerbee, Jr. v. State of Florida & Terry Marvin Ellerbee, Jr. v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-12-21

Cites

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

• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Barber v. Page
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-29· cited 1,846×
• United States Ex Rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 1,415×
• David W. McKay v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1986-10-06· cited 757×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-06· cited 309×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Antares Aircraft L. P. v. Federal Republic of Nigeria
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 174×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Koon v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-25· cited 104×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Kelley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-10· cited 98×
• Windom v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-27· cited 96×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-10-04· cited 93×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-02· cited 65×
• Bonifay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 62×
• Bertolotti v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-10-30· cited 59×
• Davis v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-01· cited 58×
• Archer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-03-14· cited 54×
• Geralds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-30· cited 53×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-01· cited 53×