Reaves v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming death sentence for the murder of a deputy sheriff, where the record supported the existence of two aggravating circumstances of prior violent felony and avoid arrest, no statutory mitigators, and three nonstatutory mitigators
• upholding challenge of Jewish juror based on perceived misunderstanding of burden of proof
• affirming the imposition of the death penalty, despite a number of harmless trial errors
• no error in denial of challenge to four prospective jurors who suggested they would vote automatically for death penalty in event of conviction; record contained evidence prospective jurors rehabilitated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Muhammad v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-01-18· cited 153×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• Griffin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-29· cited 139×
• State v. Carr
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2014-07-25· cited 125×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 122×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 115×
• Conde v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-04· cited 112×
• Braddy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-11-15· cited 96×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 93×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-02· cited 89×
• Singleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-02-15· cited 85×
• Overton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-13· cited 80×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 59×
• Fernandez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-02-25· cited 57×
• Reaves v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-20· cited 54×
• Ault v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-09-30· cited 53×
• Pacifico v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-09-29· cited 51×
• Bevel v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-03-20· cited 49×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• State v. Murray
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-12· cited 147×
• Reaves v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 26×
• Bunney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-07-02· cited 26×
• Bryant v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-03-19· cited 23×