Trotter v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \An intervening act of the legislature refining a portion of Florida's death penalty statute may be sufficiently exceptional to warrant modification of -2- the law of the case.\

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Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Zack v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-01-06· cited 120×
• Lukehart v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 54×
• Mills v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-12· cited 45×
• Commonwealth v. Fisher
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-11-24· cited 41×
• Trotter v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-07-23· cited 36×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-25· cited 23×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-07-13· cited 18×
• McBride v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-03-08· cited 12×
• State v. Hootman
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-26· cited 9×
• Spectrum Interiors, Inc. v. Exterior Walls, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2011-06-17· cited 3×
• Melvin Trotter v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2018-01-26· cited 1×
• LARRY MARSHALL v. STATE OF FLORIDA
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2019-10-18
• Melvin Trotter v. State of Florida & Melvin Trotter v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2026-02-17

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Weaver v. Graham
  Supreme Court· 1981-02-24· cited 2,482×
• Miller v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-09· cited 1,316×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Brunner Enterprises v. Dept. of Revenue
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-14· cited 60×
• Hitchcock v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 46×
• Dugger v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-27· cited 20×
• Zeigler v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-04-11· cited 20×