Rutherford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that essentially cumulative testimony presented during 3.850 evidentiary hearing was insufficient to establish prejudice in failing to present additional mitigation
• noting that the trial mental health evaluators were aware of Rutherford's alcoholism and anxiety disorder and merely reached a different conclusion that was not necessarily \inconsistent\ with the postconviction evaluation
• finding no error in trial court's assessment that \there is no evidence [the defendant's] disorder contributed to his actions in effecting the murder\
• finding counsel's decision to \humanize\ defendant and not pursue mental health mitigation was a reasonable strategy under the circumstances of the case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Rutherford v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-12· cited 256×
• Arthur D. Rutherford v. James Crosby
  Eleventh Circuit· 2004-09-21· cited 248×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-11-24· cited 205×
• Guzman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-11-20· cited 147×
• McLin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-09-12· cited 146×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-19· cited 118×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 117×
• State v. Coney
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-03-06· cited 114×
• Schoenwetter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-07-01· cited 109×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-03· cited 108×
• State v. Riechmann
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-24· cited 98×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 88×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 83×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-04-22· cited 82×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-14· cited 82×
• Arbelaez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-01-27· cited 82×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-12-23· cited 81×
• Waterhouse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-31· cited 81×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-10-20· cited 69×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Lusk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-26· cited 162×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 148×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-03-07· cited 121×
• Medina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-21· cited 92×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-11· cited 81×
• Mason v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-06-12· cited 71×
• Hildwin v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-01-19· cited 62×
• Robinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-02-12· cited 60×
• Haliburton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-04-05· cited 60×
• State v. Sireci
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-01-05· cited 51×
• State v. Bolender
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-01-29· cited 47×
• Breedlove v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-03-13· cited 42×
• Haliburton v. Singletary
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-01-09· cited 42×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-09-24· cited 32×
• Chandler v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-02-24· cited 29×
• Middleton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-03-04· cited 28×
• Rutherford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-06-15· cited 28×
• Dragovich v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-05-29· cited 23×
• Bryan v. Dugger
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-16· cited 21×