McKinney v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “[t]he trial court is the more appropriate forum to present such claims where evidence might be necessary to explain why certain actions were taken or omitted by counsel.”
• finding the death sentence disproportionate when only felony-murder aggravator was present and other mitigation was present
• finding the death sentence disproportionate when only felony-murder aggravator was present and other mitigation was present
• HAC not shown where semiconscious victim suffered seven gunshot wounds on right side of body and two acute lacerations on head
• circumstance not shown where victim received multiple gunshot wounds and evidence did not show that the defendant intended to torture the victim
• although victim shot seven times, “murder is not heinous, atrocious or cruel without additional facts to raise the shooting to the shocking level”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Manning v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1999-03-31· cited 266×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-02· cited 89×
• Consalvo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 84×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-18· cited 54×
• Sinclair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 51×
• DeAngelo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-08· cited 51×
• Philmore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-30· cited 45×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-22· cited 35×
• Cruller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-24· cited 34×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 33×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-04· cited 25×
• Ponticelli v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-10-10· cited 22×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-09· cited 22×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-01-07· cited 22×
• LW v. Department of Children and Families
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-28· cited 21×
• Barrientos v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-06· cited 20×
• Lawrence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-13· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-03-05· cited 16×

Cites

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

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• 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×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Menendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-01-25· cited 102×
• Kelley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-04-10· cited 98×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-17· cited 75×
• Cheshire v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-27· cited 71×
• Buenoano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-23· cited 67×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-02· cited 56×
• Lloyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-17· cited 45×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-02-13· cited 43×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 41×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-05-25· cited 37×
• Shere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-04-04· cited 37×
• State v. Sanborn
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-11-23· cited 30×
• Pardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-05-31· cited 28×