366 So. 2d 387 - Shue v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2002
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Woodson v. North Carolina · Coker v. Georgia · Roberts v. Louisiana · 283 So. 2d 1 - State v. Dixon · 322 So. 2d 908 - Tedder v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The trial judge ignored every aspect of the medical testimony in this case when he found that no mitigating circumstances existed. There was almost total agreement on Huckaby's mental illness and its controlling influence on him. Although the defense was unable to prove legal insanity, it amply showed that Huckaby's mental illness was a motivating factor in the commission of the crimes for which he was convicted. Our review of the record shows that the capital felony involved in this case was committed while Huckaby was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbance, and that while he may have comprehended the difference between right and wrong his capacity to appreciate the criminality of his conduct and to conform it to the law was substantially impaired. These findings constitute two mitigating circumstances which should have been weighed in determining his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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