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.

• noting that because NRS 205.070 specifically authorizes the prosecution for each crime committed during the commission of a burglary, each crime can be used separately as an aggravating circumstance at sentencing
• “Nevada’s statute does not require the jury to impose the death penalty under any circumstances, even when the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances.”
• “Nevada’s statute does not require the jury to impose the death penalty under any circumstances, even when the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating circumstances.”
• poetry in plain view detailing defendant’s desire to kill was lawfully seized
• poetry in plain view detailing defendant's desire to kill was lawfully seized

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Wesley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-04-30· cited 70×
• Rippo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-10-01· cited 64×
• State v. Bennett
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-12-30· cited 60×
• Sechrest v. Ignacio
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-12-05· cited 56×
• Canape v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-09-09· cited 56×
• Riley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-28· cited 45×
• Leslie v. Warden
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2002-12-18· cited 41×
• Garcia v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-06-23· cited 39×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-12-20· cited 35×
• Lane v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-09-29· cited 31×
• Bennett v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1995-08-24· cited 25×
• Leslie v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-08-28· cited 18×
• Calambro v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 17×
• Paine v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-12-30· cited 14×
• Nika v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-12-30· cited 11×
• Bennett v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada Ex Rel. County of Clark
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 6×
• Simmons v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-02-29· cited 4×
• McKenna v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-15· cited 3×
• Clem v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-06-07· cited 2×