613 So. 2d 446 - Archer v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

cited by 54 later decisions

states following

February 2019

most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 852 So. 2d 226 - FB v. State (2003), 762 So. 2d 879 - Brooks v. State (2000)

53 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 Hanil Bank v. Michelman · 471 So. 2d 32 - Tillman v. State · Thomas v. Maryland · Lusk v. Florida · 412 So. 2d 347 - Bryant v. State

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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“For an issue to be preserved for appeal, . . . it `must be presented to the lower court and the specific legal argument or ground to be argued on appeal must be part of that presentation if it is to be considered preserved.'”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. McCray v. State · Infantes v. State
“According to the testimony presented at trial, Archer was fired from his job at an auto parts store in March 1990. The following January he convinced his cousin, seventeen-year-old Pat Bonifay, to kill the clerk he apparently blamed for his having been fired. Bonifay testified that Archer told him to rob the store to hide the motive for the killing and to wear a ski mask and gloves and also told him the location of the store's cash box and emergency exit. Bonifay borrowed a handgun from a friend who gave the gun to Archer to give to Bonifay. Bonifay talked two friends into helping him, and the trio went to the parts store on Friday night, January 24, 1991. Bonifay could not go through with the murder, however, and they left the store. The next day Archer got after Bonifay for not killing the clerk, and the trio went back to the store that night. Bonifay shot the clerk and he and one of his friends crawled into the store through the night parts window. After opening the cash boxes, Bonifay shot the clerk in the head twice as he lay on the floor begging for his life. Archer later refused to pay Bonifay because he killed the wrong clerk. Bonifay confessed to several people, one of whom informed the authorities, resulting in the arrest of Archer, Bonifay, and Bonifay's two friends. The defendants were tried separately, and Archer's jury convicted him of first-degree murder. The judge agreed with the jury's recommendation and sentenced him to death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 934 So. 2d 1187 - Archer v. State
“a defendant who arranges for a killing but who is not present and who does not know how the murder will be accomplished cannot be subjected vicariously to the heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
e.g. 919 So. 2d 347 - Perez v. State

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