Sexton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that collateral bad acts testimony regarding the mysterious death and subsequent burial of the defendant’s infant grandchild was admissible because: (1) it was relevant to explain the defendant’s motive for killing his son-in-law (the father of the dead baby
• holding abuse of discretion standard applicable in determining if trial court afforded proper weight to aggravating factor
• “The failure to contemporaneously object to a comment on the basis that it constitutes improper victim testimony renders the claim procedurally barred absent fundamental error.”
• \[I]t is this Court's independent obligation to review the record for sufficiency of evidence.\
• “This Court has consistently found a Nelson hearing unwarranted where a defendant presents general complaints about defense counsel’s trial strategy and no formal allegations of incompetence have been made. See Davis v. State, 703 So.2d 1055, 1058-59 (Fla. 1997

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• Logan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-17· cited 223×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-11· cited 119×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Barnhill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-10· cited 97×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• Frances v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-10-11· cited 87×
• Pearce v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 83×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-06· cited 81×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Buzia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• Schoenwetter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-04-27· cited 71×
• Globe v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-03-18· cited 69×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-01-22· cited 65×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-11· cited 63×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×

Cites

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

• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• State v. DiGuilio
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 2,703×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Nelson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1973-02-28· cited 400×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Hardwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 198×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Fotopoulos v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-15· cited 155×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Larzelere v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-07-11· cited 127×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 114×
• Gudinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 111×
• Heath v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-20· cited 104×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 97×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-10-01· cited 97×
• Windom v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-27· cited 96×
• Tillman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-10-17· cited 92×