Occhicone v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing for new trial where prosecutor expressed personal belief during opening statement that defendant's alibi witness was a \liar\
• rejecting claim that Florida's penalty instructions on cold, calculated, and premeditated and heinous, atrocious, or cruel were unconstitutionally vague
• “Opening remarks are not evidence, and the purpose of opening argument is to outline what an attorney expects to be established by the evidence.”
• where victims were murdered due to interference with defendant's relationship with daughter, death penalty was warranted in light of three aggravating circumstances
• “When there is a legal basis to support finding an aggravating factor, we will not substitute our judgment for that of the trial court . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 127×
• Salazar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-07-10· cited 109×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-21· cited 95×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 93×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-05· cited 87×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-22· cited 74×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-02· cited 68×
• Crump v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-06-10· cited 66×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-20· cited 62×
• Guzman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 61×
• Dan Edward Routly, Cross-Appellee v. Harry K. Singletary, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 1994-09-19· cited 59×
• Fernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-02-25· cited 57×
• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-11-29· cited 55×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-01· cited 53×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-25· cited 49×
• Lott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-13· cited 47×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Doyle v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-17· cited 4,773×
• Maynard v. Cartwright
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,367×
• South Dakota v. Neville
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-22· cited 1,275×
• Wainwright v. Greenfield
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-14· cited 752×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Newlon v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 261×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 148×
• Torres-Arboledo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-24· cited 137×
• Ruffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-03-26· cited 105×
• General Electric Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1988-10-11· cited 100×
• Chestnut v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-05· cited 92×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 83×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 68×
• Bertolotti v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-10-30· cited 59×
• Smalley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 57×
• Gurganus v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-03· cited 57×