Proffitt v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• death penalty for murder committed when victim awoke during burglary of his residence was disproportionate where lack of prior criminal activity or violent behavior was found in mitigation
• death sentence vacated, burglary without more in aggravation, no prior criminal history
• felony murder in aggravation; no prior history in mitigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-16· cited 62×
• LaMarca v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-08· cited 61×
• Sinclair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 51×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-22· cited 49×
• Klokoc v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-09-05· cited 48×
• Mills v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-12· cited 45×
• Lloyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-03-17· cited 45×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-19· cited 40×
• Penn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 38×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-02-28· cited 25×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-03-19· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-09· cited 22×
• Francis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-06-02· cited 20×
• Freeman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-05-31· cited 20×
• Levis Leon Aldridge, Cross-Appellee v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, Cross-Appellant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-02-20· cited 19×
• Spaziano v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-15· cited 17×
• State v. Breedlove
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-06· cited 9×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-12-01· cited 8×
• Chaky v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-03-02· cited 4×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Charles William Proffitt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Offender Rehabilitation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1982-09-17· cited 259×
• Menendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-01-25· cited 102×
• Proffitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-05-28· cited 61×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-08· cited 40×
• Rembert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 38×
• Menendez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-08-26· cited 35×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-09-01· cited 34×
• Charles William Proffitt v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary Florida Dept. Of Offender Rehabilitation
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-03-26· cited 18×
• National Black Media Coalition v. Federal Communications Commission and United States of America
  D.C. Circuit· 1983-05-10· cited 7×
• Proffitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-06-29· cited 6×
• Proffitt v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-25· cited 5×
• Post-Newsweek Stations, Florida, Inc. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-02· cited 1×