Cummings v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 2002
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Melbourne v. State · Joiner v. State · 493 So. 2d 1019 - Wilson v. State · 696 So. 2d 738 - Coolen v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“In our case ... there were several eye witnesses [sic] that testified that the victim and Cummings were engaged in a heated argument before the victim walked out of Cummings’ apartment and returned to the vehicle in which he had arrived. After the victim was seated in the vehicle, Cummings came out of his apartment, approached to within a few feet of the victim and shot him several times. We believe that the jury could properly determine that the time it took Cummings to follow the victim out of his apartment and to approach the vehicle was sufficient time to reflect on the nature of the act about to be committed and that Cummings understood the probable result of firing four or five bullets into the victim....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kattick v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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