Echols v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “a trial court [is not] required to find mitigating circumstances where there are none[.]”
• reiterating that “sentencing decisions lie within the discretion of the trial court,” which include the trial court’s use or non-use of aggravators and mitigators
• “Echols correctly recites the law regarding the necessity of a jury instruction on specific intent in an attempted murder case. . . . There is no comparable requirement for the murder charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-08-06· cited 236×
• Whedon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-04-16· cited 78×
• Newsome v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-10-14· cited 72×
• Jackson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-05-19· cited 66×
• B.K.C. v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-01-09· cited 60×
• Wieland v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-13· cited 51×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-04-29· cited 44×
• Hubbard v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-01-16· cited 30×
• Evans v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-24· cited 26×
• Stafford v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-10-12· cited 26×
• Cruz Angeles v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-07-16· cited 23×
• Simmons v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-03-15· cited 23×
• Owens v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-11-16· cited 21×
• Bostick v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-03-04· cited 21×
• Arthur v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-03-22· cited 18×
• Sipple v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-05-15· cited 17×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-05-09· cited 11×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2003-04-02· cited 10×
• Hollen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2001-02-14· cited 9×
• Vennard v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2004-02-18· cited 5×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Widener v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-28· cited 125×
• Harrison v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-02-09· cited 99×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-09-04· cited 81×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-28· cited 75×
• Prowell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-11-04· cited 65×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-05-27· cited 59×
• McCollum v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-12-12· cited 57×
• Bunch v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-09· cited 42×
• Garrett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-07-15· cited 39×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1993-07-13· cited 37×