Ruffin v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• previous murder is significant history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1981-10-05· cited 332×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 196×
• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1989-08-03· cited 184×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• State v. Brewer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1992-01-28· cited 142×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• State v. Brooks
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1989-01-30· cited 112×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Knotts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-06-16· cited 108×
• Harvey v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-23· cited 104×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-07-12· cited 104×
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-22· cited 98×
• Perkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-11-19· cited 97×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-10-11· cited 87×
• Amazon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-03-13· cited 78×
• Douglas v. Wainwright
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-09-19· cited 77×
• Teffeteller v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-08-25· cited 75×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-20· cited 73×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-03-25· cited 1,148×
• Vivona v. Conboy
  Supreme Court· 1959-10-12· cited 351×
• Provence v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-07-21· cited 220×
• Elledge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 200×
• Peek v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-27· cited 109×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 95×
• Critzer v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-15· cited 92×
• Hargrave v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-06-30· cited 91×
• Salvatore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 90×
• Alford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-01-29· cited 88×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-05-08· cited 82×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1960-01-27· cited 78×
• Ashley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1972-05-03· cited 77×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-01-31· cited 67×
• Antone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-03-27· cited 66×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-11-21· cited 65×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-11-09· cited 58×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-04-06· cited 18×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-04-07· cited 15×