Ross v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court erred in not considering in mitigation, among other things, that defendant had drinking problems and had been drinking when he attacked the victim
• death penalty disproportionate for bludgeoning murder of wife; even with most serious aggravator of HAC
• \death penalty is not proportionately warranted\ for bludgeoning death of wife; jury recommendation of death; presence of heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 108×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-13· cited 105×
• Rodgers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 102×
• Garron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-05-19· cited 101×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-12-24· cited 83×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• Cheshire v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-27· cited 71×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Farinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-10-11· cited 66×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-11-14· cited 54×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-11-27· cited 53×
• Hudson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-01-19· cited 40×
• Caruso v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-06· cited 39×
• Fead v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-09-03· cited 35×
• Santos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-09-26· cited 34×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 29×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-03-31· cited 927×
• Singer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-02-13· cited 190×
• McArthur v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-09-30· cited 185×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-11-16· cited 171×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• Heiney v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-15· cited 124×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-12-09· cited 121×
• Buford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-23· cited 120×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-06-14· cited 104×
• Blair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-25· cited 63×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1969-06-11· cited 57×
• Waterhouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-02-17· cited 51×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-07-16· cited 41×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-07-18· cited 38×
• In re Green
  Supreme Court· 1983-11-07· cited 33×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-03-23· cited 31×
• Christopher v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-12-10· cited 21×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-11-21· cited 19×
• Harvard v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 15×