596 So. 2d 1034 - Pace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2018
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 King v. Lynaugh · Griffin v. Texas · Steinhorst v. State · Watson v. Louisiana · Richardson v. Illinois
Most-quoted passages
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“germane to that witness' testimony and plausibly relevant to the theory of defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he aggravating circumstances of previous convictions of felony involving violence, committed while on parole, and committed while engaged in a robbery are all supported beyond a reasonable doubt. The trial judge found no statutory mitigating circumstances and, after reviewing the nonstatutory mitigating evidence, concluded that none of the suggested mitigating factors had been established. Considering the totality of the circumstances, we conclude that the record supports the trial judge's conclusion. Accord Floyd v. State, 569 So.2d 1225 (Fla.1990). Even if one or more nonstatutory mitigating factors were wrongfully rejected, we are persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt that the weight thereof was so insignificant that the trial judge would have imposed death. Because the aggravating circumstances outweigh any nonstatutory mitigating evidence, death is the appropriate penalty. Accord Eutzy v. State, 458 So.2d 755 (Fla.1984), cert. denied, 471 U.S. 1045 , 105 S.Ct. 2062 , 85 L.Ed.2d 336 (1985); Johnson v. State, 438 So.2d 774 (Fla.1983), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1051 , 104 S.Ct. 1329 , 79 L.Ed.2d 724 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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