Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• striking HAC where any of the five blows to the head could have resulted in unconsciousness or death, the entire attack could have taken place in seconds, and the evidence did not establish the existence of any defensive wounds
• “[t]he existence of a defensive wound is relevant to the [heinous, atrocious, or cruel] analysis—this [c]ourt has affirmed findings of [the heinous, atrocious, or cruel factor] where defensive wounds revealed awareness of impending death” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[Although there was extensive evidence of actions that Williams took after the murder, there is no evidence that Williams procured any of the items he used to dispose of the body prior to the murder.”
• mere presence of blood on victim's jeans, with no evidence as to how blood likely got there or what pattern of blood indicated, did not establish that victim was standing, and hence was conscious, when blows to head were delivered
• “All of the hallmarks of a killing that has been found to be CCP are missing in this case, including ‘such facts as advance procurement of a weapon, lack of resistance or provocation, and the appearance of a killing carried out as a matter of course.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-01-06· cited 92×
• State v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-11-29· cited 62×
• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-12-06· cited 59×
• Bill Paul Marquardt v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-01-22· cited 47×
• Leonard Patrick Gonzalez, Jr. v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-04-10· cited 46×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-07-07· cited 46×
• Gregory v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-06-27· cited 43×
• Gosciminski v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-09-12· cited 43×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2011-06-30· cited 39×
• Timothy W. Fletcher v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2015-06-25· cited 35×
• Kocaker v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-01-03· cited 32×
• Wilcox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-08· cited 32×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-09-20· cited 28×
• Timothy Lee Hurst v. State of Florida
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2014-05-01· cited 25×
• Peters v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-11-20· cited 24×
• Peterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-05-17· cited 24×
• Kaczmar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-10-04· cited 23×
• Bright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-01-26· cited 23×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2013-07-08· cited 22×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2012-08-30· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-03-18· cited 539×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Connor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-06· cited 331×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• Hardwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-04· cited 198×
• Trotter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-12-20· cited 172×
• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-10-26· cited 157×
• Swafford v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-09-29· cited 134×
• Willacy v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 127×
• Finney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 122×
• Larkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-08· cited 114×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 108×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-23· cited 107×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-13· cited 105×
• Heath v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-20· cited 104×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 99×
• Kearse v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-22· cited 99×