Lucas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \A proffer is necessary to preserve a claim such as this because an appellate court will not otherwise speculate about the admissibility of such evidence.\
• prosecutor's jury argument that mitigation of no significant prior history of criminal conduct should be rejected because of *Page 1258 contemporaneous criminal conduct in violation of Scull was not fundamental error
• proffer necessary to preserve claim because appellate court will not otherwise speculate about admissibility of evidence
• victim's drug use was not relevant in penalty phase of capital trial
• proffer necessary to preserve claim that trial court improperly excluded testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bolton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1995-06-13· cited 326×
• Goodwin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-12-16· cited 292×
• Trease v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-17· cited 127×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Lucas v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-06-08· cited 116×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-08-29· cited 114×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-06· cited 106×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Harvey v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-23· cited 104×
• Donaldson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-30· cited 88×
• Frances v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-11· cited 87×
• Consalvo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 84×
• Leon Davis, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-11-10· cited 82×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-22· cited 73×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-05-27· cited 71×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Dennis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-31· cited 63×
• Bonifay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 62×
• Norton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-12-24· cited 62×
• Price v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-11-30· cited 61×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• 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×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 200×
• McKenna v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-21· cited 153×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-26· cited 105×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 104×
• Goodman v. McDonnell Douglas Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1980-04-21· cited 100×
• Kelley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-10· cited 98×
• Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary
  Supreme Court· 1981-11-02· cited 94×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 83×
• Illinois v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-14· cited 77×
• Stano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-07-11· cited 65×
• Scull v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-08· cited 65×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-06-27· cited 60×