Lightbourne v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt in that case the recanted testimony would not \probably produce an acquittal on retrial\
• remanding for an evidentiary hearing to determine whether newly recanted testimony, when considered cumulatively with all of the post-trial evidence indicated that other witnesses testified falsely, required a new penalty— phase hearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Sims v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-16· cited 128×
• Tompkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-11-07· cited 121×
• Lightbourne v. McCollum
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-11-01· cited 102×
• Archer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-06-29· cited 55×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-22· cited 41×
• Rutherford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-27· cited 38×
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-05-29· cited 37×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-31· cited 35×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-11-07· cited 31×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 23×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-12-05· cited 23×
• Kight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-01-18· cited 22×
• Paul Christopher Hildwin v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-06-26· cited 16×
• Steven Richard Taylor v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-12-20· cited 14×
• Walton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-05-17· cited 14×
• Michael T. Rivera v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-11-25· cited 10×
• Tompkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-10· cited 4×
• Antonio Lebaron Melton v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-05-26· cited 3×
• Derrick Tyrone Smith v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-10-05· cited 2×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• United States v. Henry
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-16· cited 1,013×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-17· cited 305×
• Ian Lightbourne v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-11-30· cited 175×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-15· cited 139×
• Armstrong v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-08-11· cited 122×
• State v. Spaziano
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-17· cited 42×
• E. J. Co. v. Sandvik Aktiebolag
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-23· cited 37×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-03· cited 30×
• Lightbourne v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-20· cited 25×
• Lightbourne v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-16· cited 21×
• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-04· cited 5×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-24· cited 1×