Mendoza v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting a \robbery gone awry\ argument where the trial court found two aggravators: a prior violent felony—armed robbery in connection with a separate case—and commission during a robbery
• finding evidentiary error to be harmless under the circumstances of the case, even though argued to the jury
• no statutory mental mitigation and only minimal nonstatutory mitigating evidence of drug use and mental health problems
• \[E]rroneously admitted evidence concerning a defendant's character in a penalty phase is subject to a harmless error review . . . .\
• \[T]he trial court erred in overruling appellant's objection to the State's question to Dr. Toomer during cross-examination and the comment in the State's closing argument asking whether Dr. Toomer was aware that the defendant had a pending trial in other robberies using a firearm.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-01-06· cited 120×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 114×
• Busby v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-02-03· cited 105×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-21· cited 95×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-05· cited 87×
• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-13· cited 80×
• Duest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-26· cited 79×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Aguirre-Jarquin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-03-26· cited 76×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-06-03· cited 68×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-22· cited 65×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-07· cited 63×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-20· cited 59×
• Fernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-02-25· cited 57×
• Randolph v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-24· cited 48×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-30· cited 39×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 33×

Cites

34 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×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-18· cited 152×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-02-25· cited 89×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-18· cited 75×
• Scull v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-08· cited 65×
• Pentecost v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-29· cited 63×
• Livingston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-10· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-05-01· cited 54×
• Geralds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-30· cited 53×
• Sinclair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 51×
• Oats v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-23· cited 46×