Fitzpatrick v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• evaluating a claim that a prisoner’s execution would violate the Eighth Amendment because “there are no competent hangmen in Montana”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Tillman
  Utah Supreme Court· 1987-12-22· cited 213×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-12-21· cited 178×
• People v. Monge
  California Supreme Court· 1997-08-27· cited 145×
• Cochran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-04-24· cited 123×
• People v. Casares
  California Supreme Court· 2016-02-04· cited 118×
• State v. White
  Montana Supreme Court· 2001-08-09· cited 93×
• Albert Ray Beam v. David Paskett, Warden, Idaho State Prison-Boise
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-12-07· cited 84×
• Hagen v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 1999-01-22· cited 75×
• Bernard J. Fitzpatrick v. Jack McCormick Warden of the Montana State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1989-03-07· cited 58×
• State v. Smith
  Montana Supreme Court· 1996-12-13· cited 53×
• Vernon Kills on Top v. State
  Montana Supreme Court· 1996-11-25· cited 52×
• State v. Madera
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-10-06· cited 44×
• McKenzie v. Osborne
  Montana Supreme Court· 1982-01-26· cited 34×
• State v. Weldy
  Montana Supreme Court· 1995-08-04· cited 30×
• Dewey E. Coleman v. Henry Risley, Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-01-19· cited 29×
• State v. Canon
  Montana Supreme Court· 1984-08-30· cited 27×
• John Harvey Adamson v. James G. Ricketts
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-04-18· cited 24×
• State v. Finley
  Montana Supreme Court· 2002-12-10· cited 16×
• Bromley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1988-06-15· cited 16×
• State v. LaValley
  Montana Supreme Court· 1983-04-13· cited 15×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-11· cited 4,496×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Washington v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-07· cited 3,450×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Sanders v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-04-29· cited 2,713×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Burgett v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-11-13· cited 1,632×
• State v. Green
  Washington Supreme Court· 1980-08-28· cited 1,403×
• Coker v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-29· cited 1,233×