Middleton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• approving trial court's imposition of death sentence and reiterating that jury had recommended death
• \[T]he jury's recommendation of a sentence of death is a strong indication that it did not find appellant's emotional state particularly compelling as a mitigating circumstance.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• William Middleton, Cross-Appellant v. Richard L. Dugger, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-06-22· cited 124×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Coolen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-05-22· cited 85×
• Larry Eugene Mann v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-04-21· cited 78×
• Medina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-31· cited 63×
• Randolph v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-12-20· cited 46×
• Herzog v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-22· cited 46×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-31· cited 41×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 39×
• Penn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 38×
• Monroe v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 37×
• Lara v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-24· cited 36×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-07· cited 33×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-07· cited 33×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-03-04· cited 28×
• Thompson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-09-06· cited 24×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-05-28· cited 23×
• Lenson A. Hargrave v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida
  Eleventh Circuit· 1987-01-26· cited 21×
• Polite v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-06-06· cited 17×

Cites

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

• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Sireci v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 162×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 95×
• Knight v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-09-30· cited 87×
• Maggard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-05-07· cited 75×
• Combs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-30· cited 71×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-07-08· cited 63×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-09-03· cited 57×
• State v. Rosa
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-03-23· cited 52×
• Volusia County Bank v. Bigelow
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1903-01-15· cited 41×
• Fleming v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 36×
• Jordan v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1962-12-03· cited 33×
• Ellenburg v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1977-12-20· cited 23×
• The People v. Perkins
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-11-18· cited 20×
• State v. Bindhammer
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1965-04-12· cited 17×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-01-23· cited 15×
• People v. Thompson
  California Court of Appeal· 1955-05-16· cited 15×
• Craft v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1980-02-27· cited 12×