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.

• holding that the trial court properly did not find that the defendant’s employment was a significant mitigating circumstance where defendant did not present a specific work history, performance reviews, or attendance records
• holding that the defendant’s alcoholism could properly have been considered an aggravating circumstance
• holding that the defendant's alcoholism could properly have been considered an aggravating circumstance
• holding that defendant’s alcoholism could properly have been considered aggravating circumstance
• holding alcohol abuse may be considered aggravating circumstance when the defendant is aware of the problem but does not seek to remedy it
• observing that even if the trial court erred in considering either of the two challenged aggravating circumstances, the trial court could still enhance the defendant‟s sentence through the single aggravating circumstance of his criminal history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Collins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-02-09· cited 114×
• Purvis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-07· cited 78×
• Bryant v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-01-29· cited 76×
• Caraway v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-11-17· cited 54×
• Stout v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-09-22· cited 53×
• Brian M. Marley v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-09-11· cited 48×
• Purifoy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-01-26· cited 46×
• Traylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-11-10· cited 40×
• Jose Guzman v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2013-04-15· cited 33×
• Espinoza v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-27· cited 23×
• McKinney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-09-17· cited 23×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-12-29· cited 20×
• Comer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-12-19· cited 15×
• Pinkston v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-10-31· cited 11×
• Davis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-08-11· cited 10×
• Sloan v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-09-04· cited 6×
• Tracy v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-11-16· cited 2×
• Buck Gleason v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-03-29
• Randall E. Reynolds, II v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-02-10
• Elyse S. Barnfield v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-05-20

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Oliver v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-17· cited 1,923×
• Wethington v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-10-04· cited 130×
• Blanche v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-01-29· cited 105×
• Thacker v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-04-16· cited 90×
• Wise v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-11-19· cited 74×
• Walker v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-05-15· cited 58×
• Scheckel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-08-31· cited 43×
• Shultz v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-01-11· cited 42×
• Senn v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-04-26· cited 40×
• Sallee v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-11-08· cited 39×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-04-07· cited 38×
• Wilson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-08-14· cited 27×
• Smock v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-03-20· cited 24×
• Bischoff v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-11-23· cited 23×
• Bonds v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-06-09· cited 21×
• Thomas v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1981-07-23· cited 20×
• Catt v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-06-12· cited 20×
• J.B. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-05-03· cited 18×
• Stone v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1990-06-19· cited 16×
• Driver v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-03-17· cited 14×