Mills v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that murder committed after unlawful entry was committed during course of burglary and thus subjected Mills to felony-murder prosecution
• rejecting equal protection challenge to aggravating factor of murder committed during commission of a felony
• results of neutron activation analysis gunshot residue test held admissible with court noting test \has attained sufficient standing among scientists to be accepted as reliable evidence in the courts\
• defendant was in the course of burglary when he committed murder
• vacating conviction and sentence for aggravated battery
• vacating conviction and sentence for aggravated battery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carawan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-03· cited 474×
• People v. Johnson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1986-10-17· cited 261×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-22· cited 218×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-07· cited 106×
• McWatters v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-03-18· cited 98×
• Andrews v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-10-20· cited 97×
• Barnhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-10· cited 97×
• Amazon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-13· cited 78×
• Mills v. Singletary
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-12-01· cited 70×
• Scull v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-08· cited 65×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-08-15· cited 62×
• Lukehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 54×
• Brookings v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-08-28· cited 54×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-12-08· cited 49×
• Ault v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-11-06· cited 46×
• Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 46×
• Mills v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-12· cited 45×

Cites

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

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• Newlon v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 261×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 148×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-06-09· cited 106×
• State v. Enmund
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 104×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-07-12· cited 91×
• Maggard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-05-07· cited 75×
• Teffeteller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-08-25· cited 75×
• Kampff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-29· cited 64×
• State v. Gibson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-14· cited 53×
• Keith v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1980-05-30· cited 52×
• Foster v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-06-19· cited 46×
• State v. Warden
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 43×
• Chatom v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1977-06-17· cited 24×