Carter 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 did not abuse its discretion in failing to consider a mitigating circumstance which was not raised at sentencing
• concluding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion when it identified defendant’s attempted molestation of his sister as an aggravating circumstance
• holding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in failing to consider a mitigating circumstance which was not raised at sentencing
• holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion by considering evidence at sentencing hearing that defendant had attempted to molest his three-year-old sister a few weeks before murdering another child
• reducing a sixty-year sentence for murder to fifty years because of the defendant’s “very youthful age”
• reducing a sixty-year sentence for murder to fifty years because of the defendant’s “very youthful age”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Anglemyer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-06-26· cited 1,831×
• Andrew Conley v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2012-07-31· cited 392×
• Wooley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-29· cited 145×
• Martez Brown v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2014-06-02· cited 131×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-01-07· cited 120×
• McCann v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-06-20· cited 115×
• Dowdell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 108×
• Corbett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-03-19· cited 108×
• Spears v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-06· cited 102×
• Jacob Fuller v.State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2014-06-02· cited 96×
• Wallace v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-23· cited 92×
• Rascoe v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-05· cited 78×
• Gross v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-06-18· cited 61×
• Trowbridge v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-10-04· cited 56×
• Carltez Taylor v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2017-12-05· cited 51×
• Georgopolus v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-09-29· cited 49×
• Bluck v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-09-22· cited 47×
• Monegan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-10-16· cited 45×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-13· cited 44×
• Davies v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-06-15· cited 44×

Cites

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

• Hammons v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 174×
• Gardner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-04-30· cited 134×
• Widener v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-28· cited 125×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-30· cited 110×
• Blanche v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-01-29· cited 105×
• Fointno v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-01-06· cited 98×
• Thacker v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-04-16· cited 90×
• Weeks v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 88×
• Tunstill v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-03-21· cited 69×
• Prowell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-04· cited 65×
• Carter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-10-10· cited 64×
• Kent v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-31· cited 62×
• Scheckel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-09-28· cited 55×
• Loveless v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-11-17· cited 46×
• Bunch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-09· cited 42×
• Brown v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-08-31· cited 41×
• Wilkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-12-03· cited 40×
• Walton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-05-30· cited 38×
• Tingle v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-04-05· cited 31×
• Crawley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-03-26· cited 27×