Mora v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the trial court committed reversible error by requiring a defendant to choose between the right to counsel and the right to forgo mitigation investigation
• concluding that, under the circumstances, trial court erred by failing to respect defendant’s wishes that penalty phase counsel be precluded from contacting defendant’s elderly family members for purposes of developing mitigation
• “[A] trial judge is not required to give an instruction where there is no nexus between the evidence in the record and the requested instruction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Logan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-17· cited 223×
• Bernard J. Dougherty v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-10-16· cited 152×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-16· cited 116×
• Sheppard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-08-27· cited 113×
• Coday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 94×
• Twilegar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 73×
• Wheeler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-01-29· cited 39×
• Hernandez-Alberto v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-09-23· cited 36×
• Samson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-09-10· cited 26×
• Worley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-07-03· cited 26×
• In Re Commitment of Reilly
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2007-12-07· cited 22×
• Dortch v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-04-04· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-08-30· cited 19×
• Brockman v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-08-08· cited 18×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-07-07· cited 17×
• Palmore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-03-07· cited 16×
• Puglisi v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-04-11· cited 16×
• Goode v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-10-22· cited 12×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2003-09-03· cited 10×
• Starkes v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-04-14· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• McKaskle v. Wiggins
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,288×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-02-28· cited 400×
• Hardwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 198×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-01-18· cited 153×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-15· cited 122×
• Koon v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-25· cited 104×
• Linehan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 89×
• State v. Weller
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-07· cited 84×
• Waterhouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-31· cited 81×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-12-12· cited 73×
• State v. Tait
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-06-12· cited 66×
• Bell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-17· cited 45×
• Watts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-01-02· cited 44×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 44×
• Jaffer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-02-20· cited 44×