Melton 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 death penalty proportional where two aggravating factors of murder committed for pecuniary gain and prior violent felony outweighed moderate nonstatutory mitigation
• upholding a death sentence in connection with a robbery-murder, where the sentence was supported by two aggravators, including prior first-degree murder and robbery convictions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Trease v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-17· cited 127×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-21· cited 95×
• Deparvine v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 95×
• Consalvo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 84×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 82×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Ibar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-09· cited 77×
• Twilegar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 73×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-02· cited 68×
• Lebron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-01· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-20· cited 59×
• Durousseau v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-12-09· cited 54×
• Grim v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-03-20· cited 41×
• McKenzie v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 38×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-12-18· cited 37×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-08-21· cited 36×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 33×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-31· cited 29×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-10-26· cited 157×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-09-27· cited 71×
• Griffin v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1984-02-21· cited 43×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-31· cited 41×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-05-31· cited 20×
• Fitzpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-21· cited 15×