Thompson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that there was no indication that one of the victims resisted the defendant
• upholding validity of statutory aggravator that murder was committed for purpose of avoiding arrest where defendant kidnaped and robbed victims before murdering them
• “The sixth and final penalty phase issue raised by Thompson is whether it is unconstitutional for a jury to be allowed to recommend death on a simple majority vote. Thompson admits that this issue has already been decided by this Court contrary to his position.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 127×
• Gary Lee Davis v. Executive Director of Department of Corrections, as Head of the Department of Corrections, Ari Zavaras
  Tenth Circuit· 1996-12-23· cited 126×
• Card v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-11· cited 117×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-06-21· cited 95×
• Coday v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-10-26· cited 94×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-02· cited 93×
• Cary Williams v. Timothy Filson
  Ninth Circuit· 2018-11-09· cited 86×
• Jennings v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-09-10· cited 63×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-11· cited 63×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Lebron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-05-01· cited 63×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Spann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-03· cited 61×
• Butler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-04-03· cited 57×
• Ault v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-09-30· cited 53×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-11-12· cited 47×
• Gosciminski v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-09-12· cited 43×
• Robards v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-04-25· cited 38×
• Mann v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-04-02· cited 37×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Campbell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 233×
• Hardwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 198×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Wilson Sporting Goods Co. v. David Geoffrey & Associates
  Supreme Court· 1990-11-26· cited 96×
• Lucas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-09-20· cited 73×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-01-14· cited 56×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-22· cited 49×
• Espinosa v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-09-02· cited 8×