Bennett v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that technical rnisstatements of evidence did not infect the trial with unfairness sufficient to result in a due process violation
• observing that even if jurors unanimously find there are no mitigating circumstances sufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstances, they \still ha[ve] the discretion to return a penalty other than death\
• holding the jury's imposition of a death sentence to be discretionary
• holding the jury’s imposition of a death sentence to be discretionary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pellegrini v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-11-15· cited 330×
• Ybarra v. McDaniel
  Ninth Circuit· 2011-09-06· cited 214×
• Richard Allan MORAN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. E.K. McDANIEL, Warden, Respondent-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-03-28· cited 136×
• State v. Eighth Judicial District Court
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-06-09· cited 107×
• Hollaway v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-23· cited 66×
• Tracy Petrocelli v. Ron Angelone
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-03-08· cited 62×
• State v. Haberstroh
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-05-30· cited 60×
• State v. Bennett
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-12-30· cited 60×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 32×
• Bennett v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Clark
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 6×
• BARLOW (KEITH) v. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-DIRECT)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-04-14· cited 6×
• State v. Dist. Ct.
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-06-09· cited 5×
• Clem v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-06-07· cited 2×
• JOHNSON (DONTE) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-PC)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2017-10-05
• Hill (James) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-10-23
• Richardson (Gregory) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-12-16

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Hargrove v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1984-08-24· cited 302×
• Nevius v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-05-20· cited 70×
• Gyler v. Mission Insurance
  California Supreme Court· 1973-10-19· cited 56×
• Canape v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-09-09· cited 56×
• Gallego v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-12-20· cited 49×
• Riley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-28· cited 45×
• Bennett v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-02-23· cited 39×
• Yates v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 29×
• Jimenez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-11-28· cited 22×
• Ybarra v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-01-21· cited 15×