Sims 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 the trial court did not err in declining to instruct the jury on imperfect self-defense as a mitigating circumstance
• holding discrepancy between mitigating circumstance considered by court in its sentencing order and that on which the jury was instructed inconsequential where the sentencing order made clear \that the judge properly addressed and rejected both mitigating circumstances.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bottoson v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-24· cited 192×
• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• King v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-10-24· cited 139×
• Darling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 134×
• Chandler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-10-16· cited 128×
• Trease v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-08-17· cited 127×
• Gudinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 111×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• State v. Riechmann
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-24· cited 98×
• Reynolds v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-18· cited 98×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• Shelton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-01-05· cited 90×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• Duest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-26· cited 79×
• Ibar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-09· cited 77×
• Globe v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-03-18· cited 69×
• Bates v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-10-07· cited 68×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×
• Dennis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-31· cited 63×

Cites

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

• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-03-31· cited 927×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Craig v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-05-28· cited 145×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-13· cited 105×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×
• Garcia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-06-05· cited 90×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-16· cited 65×
• Scull v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-08· cited 65×
• Udala v. Office of Administrative Hearing Officer
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-21· cited 55×
• MacKiewicz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-09-11· cited 40×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-16· cited 39×
• Crandall v. California
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-24· cited 38×
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-20· cited 36×
• State v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 34×
• Hoffman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-22· cited 33×
• Bogle v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-02-16· cited 31×
• Aldridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-03-12· cited 31×
• Hannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-06-02· cited 27×
• Crump v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-04-27· cited 26×