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.

• defendant had been convicted of aggravated assault, and was on parole for possession of firearm by a convicted felon, when he committed the murder
• death sentence \is not comparatively inappropriate\ where defendant had prior assault convictions for shooting victims
• state's evidence deemed sufficient to link the defendant to the murder of his girlfriend, establish the element of premeditation, and to negate the defendant's exonerating trial testimony; first degree murder conviction upheld

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bland
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1997-12-01· cited 3,458×
• Pulley v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1984-01-23· cited 2,080×
• Harris v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-22· cited 290×
• State v. Godsey
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2001-11-29· cited 198×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• Darling v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-03· cited 134×
• Crain v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-10-28· cited 106×
• Barwick v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-07-20· cited 90×
• Cochran v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 71×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×
• Medina v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-01-31· cited 63×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-07-10· cited 62×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Fowler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-09-11· cited 53×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-03-22· cited 49×
• Moody v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-04-18· cited 47×
• Phillips v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-30· cited 40×
• Huff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-08-28· cited 39×

Cites

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

• Tibbs v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 3,796×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• Tibbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-09· cited 432×
• McArthur v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-09-30· cited 185×
• Hogge v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-06· cited 158×
• Spinkellink v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-02-19· cited 130×
• In re Trial Courts of the Standard Jury Instructions in Criminal Cases
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-04-16· cited 130×
• Brown v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-01-15· cited 129×
• Brown Et Al. v. Wainwright, Corrections Secretary
  Supreme Court· 1981-11-02· cited 94×
• Jaramillo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-07-08· cited 90×
• McCaskill v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-04-07· cited 88×
• Halliwell v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-12-03· cited 87×
• Kampff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-29· cited 64×
• Blair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-25· cited 63×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-02-01· cited 63×
• State v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1972-10-11· cited 35×
• Chambers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-11-04· cited 35×
• Aldridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-06-09· cited 23×
• Phippen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-10-23· cited 22×
• McCutchen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1957-06-19· cited 22×