Lynch v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the “cold” element is legally sufficient where the defendant had ample opportunity to calmly reflect upon his actions, following which he decided to shoot his victims execution-style
• holding that the \cold\ element is legally sufficient where the defendant had ample opportunity to calmly reflect upon his actions, following which he decided to shoot his victims execution-style
• holding that there is no reason for the State to notify defendants of aggravators, as the list of aggravators that can be imputed to defendants is limited to those enumerated in the relevant state statute
• noting that defendant had five-to seven-minute opportunity to withdraw from the scene or seek help for victim, but instead calculated to shoot her again, execution-style
• finding that the murder was calculated where the defendant had time to reflect between firing the first shot and firing the final, fatal shot
• upholding the trial court’s finding that the murder was calculated where the defendant had time to reflect between firing the first shot and the final fatal shot

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-25· cited 110×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-06· cited 106×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• McWatters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-03-18· cited 98×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Pearce v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 83×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 82×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Ibar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-09· cited 77×
• Buzia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Aguirre-Jarquin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-03-26· cited 76×
• Schoenwetter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-27· cited 71×
• Khadafy Kareem Mullens v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-06-16· cited 70×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-06-03· cited 68×
• Tanzi v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-10· cited 65×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 62×
• Hernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 61×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-03· cited 60×

Cites

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

• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 222×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• Trease v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-17· cited 127×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 127×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-12-20· cited 120×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Cole v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 115×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 114×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Maddox v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-03-13· cited 105×
• Henyard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-12-19· cited 101×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 97×