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.

• holding that there is no mandate that evaluations regarding mental retardation from the defendant’s youth should be afforded more weight than evaluations from later in life
• holding that there is no mandate that evaluations regarding mental retardation from the defendant’s youth should be afforded more weight than evaluations from later in life
• affirming denial of initial motion for postconviction relief, denying state habeas petition, and affirming the rejection of Trotter’s claim of mental retardation under Florida Rule of Criminal Procedure 3.203

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-06· cited 106×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-05-24· cited 47×
• Trotter v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-07-23· cited 36×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-04-12· cited 33×
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-08-28· cited 28×
• Dufour v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-08-25· cited 27×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-03-20· cited 26×
• Kilgore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-11-18· cited 26×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-11-02· cited 22×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-12-20· cited 20×
• Merck v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-01-24· cited 16×
• Zachary Taylor Wood v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2017-01-31· cited 15×
• State v. Herring
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-10-06· cited 14×
• Robert J. Bailey v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-08-28· cited 2×
• Arbelaez v. Crews
  S.D. Florida· 2014-08-20· cited 2×
• Michael Angelo Coleman v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-01-13
• Perry Anthony Cribbs v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• Leonardo Franqui v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2020-05-07
• Melvin Trotter v. State of Florida & Melvin Trotter v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2026-02-17

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Tibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-09· cited 432×
• Occhicone v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-29· cited 321×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 124×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-16· cited 122×
• Asay v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 117×
• Singletary v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-10-29· cited 100×
• Thompson v. Drug Enforcement Administration
  Supreme Court· 1997-10-06· cited 93×
• Hodges v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-14· cited 82×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-28· cited 76×
• Windom v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-06· cited 52×
• Gaskin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-06-13· cited 39×
• Patton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-20· cited 36×
• Hall v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-05-10· cited 29×