Zakrzewski v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• killing one's own family to save them from having to go through a divorce does not constitute a pretense of legal or moral justification
• striking HAC for one of the victims where “[mjedical testimony was offered during the trial which established that [the victim in question] may have been rendered unconscious upon receiving the first blow from the crowbar, and as a result, she was unaware of her impending death”
• the defendant purchased the murder weapon the morning before the murders
• HAC requires showing of awareness of impending death

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Connor v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-09-06· cited 331×
• Rutherford v. Moore
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-10-12· cited 256×
• Way v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-04-20· cited 143×
• Mark James Asay v. State of Florida, SC16-102 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc. & SC16-628 Mark James Asay v. Julie L. Jones, etc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2016-12-22· cited 110×
• Lynch v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2003-01-09· cited 102×
• Cherry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-09-28· cited 88×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-01-05· cited 87×
• Cox v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-05-23· cited 85×
• Douglas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-05-06· cited 81×
• Hutchinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2004-07-01· cited 78×
• Buzia v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2006-03-23· cited 76×
• McDonald v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-07-01· cited 72×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1999-05-27· cited 71×
• Paul H. Evans v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-10-23· cited 70×
• Blackwood v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-12-21· cited 70×
• Dennis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-01-31· cited 63×
• Rose v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-04-05· cited 63×
• Hertz v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 63×
• Looney v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-11-01· cited 62×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-20· cited 59×

Cites

45 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×
• Tedder v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-11-19· cited 480×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-07-09· cited 212×
• State v. Schopp
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1995-03-23· cited 199×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-10-13· cited 175×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-07-07· cited 132×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-06-13· cited 105×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-10-04· cited 93×
• Nixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-11-29· cited 85×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1989-07-06· cited 83×
• James v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-24· cited 79×
• Blanco v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-09-18· cited 77×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1994-11-10· cited 75×
• Farinas v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1990-10-11· cited 66×
• Perez v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1993-06-24· cited 65×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-05-10· cited 64×
• Kampff v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1979-03-29· cited 64×
• Ferry v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1987-04-30· cited 60×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1996-09-12· cited 59×
• Richardson v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-04-09· cited 57×