Woods 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 erroneous admission of victim's hearsay statements was harmless
• stating that a new trial is not required unless the newly discovered evidence would probably produce an acquittal on retrial
• noting that out-of-court statements by the declarant, who was victim in the case, could not be used to prove the state of mind or motive of the defendant
• holding \coldness\ prong of CCP is when killing was the product of cool and calm reflection and not an act prompted by emotional frenzy, panic, or fit of rage
• observing that “a homicide victim’s state of mind prior to the fatal event generally is neither at issue nor probative of any material issue raised in the murder prosecution”
• reversing sentence of death in light of one valid aggravator where there was substantial mitigation evidence including borderline IQ and lack of prior criminal behavior

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• F.B. v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-07-11· cited 200×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-05-25· cited 172×
• Johnston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-10-16· cited 164×
• Commonwealth v. Stallworth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-10-04· cited 157×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-15· cited 151×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 143×
• 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×
• Morrison v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-21· cited 104×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-09-03· cited 100×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-05· cited 99×
• Lugo v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-02-20· cited 95×
• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-02-03· cited 93×
• Jones v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-08-03· cited 87×
• Duest v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-26· cited 79×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Aguirre-Jarquin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2009-03-26· cited 76×
• Gore v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-19· cited 76×
• Floyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-06-12· cited 66×

Cites

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

• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• State v. Law
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-27· cited 545×
• Steinhorst v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-04· cited 391×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-03-13· cited 390×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-11-14· cited 320×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-03-17· cited 305×
• Urbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-05-07· cited 249×
• Terry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-01-04· cited 247×
• Porter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-06-14· cited 188×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-06-01· cited 175×
• Jent v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1981-12-03· cited 173×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1956-11-16· cited 171×
• Holton v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1991-01-15· cited 149×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-09-22· cited 140×
• In re Lucas
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-07· cited 112×
• Gudinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 111×
• Preston v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-01-19· cited 109×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-09-04· cited 108×
• Correll v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1988-01-14· cited 104×