474 So. 2d 777 - Griffin v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2018
13 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 Cupp v. Murphy · Peter J. Migliorini v. New York · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · 402 So. 2d 606 - State v. Hawkins · LeDuc v. Florida
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a fully-formed conscious purpose to kill, which exists in the mind of the perpetrator for a sufficient length of time to permit of reflection, and in pursuance of which an act of killing ensues. Weaver v. State, 220 So.2d 53 (Fla. 2d DCA), cert. denied, 225 So.2d 913 ([Fla.] 1969). Premeditation does not have to be contemplated for any particular period of time before the act, and may occur a moment before the act. Hernandez v. State, 273 So.2d 130 (Fla. 1st DCA)[,] cert. denied, 277 So.2d 287 ([Fla.] 1973). Evidence from which premeditation may be inferred includes such matters as the nature of the weapon used, the presence or absence of adequate provocation, previous difficulties between the parties, the manner in which the homicide was committed and the nature and manner of the wounds inflicted. It must exist for such time before the homicide as will enable the accused to be conscious of the nature of the deed he is about to commit and the probable result to flow from it insofar as the life of the victim is concerned. Larry v. State, 104 So.2d 352 (Fla. 1958).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We find that Griffin used a particularly lethal gun ...; that there was an absence of provocation on the part of the victim (Stokes [an accomplice] testified he heard and saw nothing unusual prior to the first shot, and the victim in fact cooperated with the robbery, taking off and giving to Stokes a gold neck chain Stokes had been unable to pull off); and that the wounds, one lethal, the other less serious, were inflicted at close range and thus unlikely to have struck the victim unintentionally. This is sufficient to support a finding of premeditation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alcott v. State“no indication in the record that [the victim] precipitated an accidental or reflexive shooting... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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