Wilson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that murder was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel was supported by evidence that victim was brutally beaten while attempting to fend off blows to the head, before he was fatally shot.
• reducing conviction for first-degree murder to second-degree murder where defendant claimed stabbing of five- year-old in chest with scissors was accidental
• defensive wounds and brutal beating with blows to head supports finding that murder was heinous, atrocious, and cruel
• \death sentence is not proportionately warranted\ for shooting death of father and stabbing death of cousin; jury recommendation of death; presence of heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator, and prior violent felony aggravator

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Pagan v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-04-04· cited 599×
• State v. Law
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 545×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• England v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-09-28· cited 151×
• Grossman v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-02-18· cited 151×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 149×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 140×
• Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-05-11· cited 119×
• Boyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-06-16· cited 116×
• Beasley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-26· cited 113×
• Conde v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-09-04· cited 112×
• Woods v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-04-15· cited 108×
• Garron v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-05-19· cited 101×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Coolen v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-05-22· cited 85×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-06· cited 81×
• Roberts v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-02· cited 76×
• Twilegar v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-01-07· cited 73×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McArthur v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-09-30· cited 185×
• Sireci v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-06-10· cited 158×
• Hall v. Blake
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-17· cited 150×
• Heiney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-02-02· cited 147×
• Heiney v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1984-10-15· cited 124×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Wilson v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 99×
• Blair v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-11-25· cited 63×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-21· cited 52×
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-15· cited 47×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-03-28· cited 35×
• Lemon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-07-19· cited 28×
• King v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1983-07-21· cited 27×
• Lee v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1962-05-09· cited 15×
• Tien Wang v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-01-11· cited 10×