Songer v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding several mitigating circumstances “particularly compelling,” including unrebutted evidence defendant’s “reasoning abilities were substantially impaired by his addiction to hard drugs”
• finding several mitigating circumstances “particularly compelling,” including unrebutted evidence defendant’s “reasoning abilities were substantially impaired by his addiction to hard drugs”
• under sentence of imprisonment in aggravation; extreme disturbance, substantial impairment, age in mitigation
• death sentence vacated, one aggravating factor, more than three mitigating circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Nibert v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-07-26· cited 98×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 93×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-06· cited 88×
• Mahn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-04-16· cited 80×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• McKinney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-05-02· cited 65×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• LaMarca v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-08· cited 61×
• Smalley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 57×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-01-14· cited 56×
• DeAngelo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-08· cited 51×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-22· cited 49×
• Klokoc v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-09-05· cited 48×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 46×
• Penn v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 38×
• Ferrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-10-03· cited 33×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-03-23· cited 31×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-04-29· cited 29×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• United States Gypsum Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 116×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-09-07· cited 95×
• Songer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-09-03· cited 57×
• LeDuc v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-11-22· cited 30×
• Songer v. Wainwright
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-08-16· cited 25×