919 So. 2d 347 - Perez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably 940 So. 2d 389 - England v. State (2006), 991 So. 2d 364 - Salazar v. State (2008)
56 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Crawford v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · Ring v. Arizona
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`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'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“never presented to the trial court in [appellant]'s motion or in the corresponding hearing”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As to mitigating circumstances, the Court finds the following: 1. That the three First Degree Murders for which the Defendant is to be sentenced were not committed while the Defendant was under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbances, nor were they mitigated by the use of alcohol as suggest ed. To the contrary, the Court finds the Defendant [a] arranged the visit to his father’s house on the eve of the murders, the first time in months that he had been to his father's house; [b] that he left the house by an outside door from a locked room; [c] walked the short distance in the early morning hours to the victim’s home; and [d] there cut the telephone lines to the outside of the house. The Defendant upon entering the victim’s home, systematically killed all the occupants of the house using a weapon that assured the least possibility of drawing the attention of witnesses. He then proceeded in a knowledgeable way to pour gasoline about the house and out into the yard. Testimony at the trial revealed that he understood the use of fire to destroy evidence. Before setting the fire, however, he secured the keys to Bonnie Knowles car for the purpose of his getaway. The Defendant’s actions and all other evi-dentiary circumstances considered show a direct conscious plan to kill and avoid apprehension. These actions do not indicate a person functioning under the influence of extreme mental or emotional disturbances. In regard to the influence of alcohol, other than the e”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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