Flanagan 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 patently prejudicial instruction error triggers court's sua sponte duty
• rejecting contention that lengthy confinement before imposition of the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment
• upholding great-risk-of-death aggravating circumstance where defendants shot and killed two people in a home with no one else present
• observing First Amendment protection against admission of evidence of beliefs, the content of which was clearly religious
• rejecting contention that lengthy confinement before imposition of the death penalty SUPREME COURT OF NEVADA 34 40
• rejecting claims that extended confinement before execution was cruel and unusual punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Valdez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-11-26· cited 368×
• Evans v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-07-24· cited 144×
• Hollaway v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-08-23· cited 66×
• State v. Haberstroh
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-05-30· cited 60×
• Vega v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2010-08-12· cited 52×
• Newman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-04-18· cited 40×
• BELCHER, JR. (NORMAN) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-DIRECT)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-06-04· cited 26×
• Manley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1999-06-07· cited 23×
• Rose v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2011-07-21· cited 17×
• Moore v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-05-17· cited 6×
• BARLOW (KEITH) v. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-DIRECT)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-04-14· cited 6×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Nevada· 2023-07-20· cited 4×
• CHAPPELL (JAMES) v. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-PC)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-12-30· cited 2×
• Flanagan v. Nevada
  Supreme Court· 1998-04-20· cited 1×
• Sanchez-Dominguez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2014-02-27
• MOORE (RANDOLPH) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY-PC)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2018-05-17
• Bean (Jerimiah) Vs. State (Death Penalty-Direct)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-09-20
• Indico (Elinor) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-10-24
• Alcantar (Jaime) Vs. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-07-24
• Harlan (Kody) v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2022-02-17

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• Pope v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 672×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×
• Petrocelli v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-01-04· cited 199×
• Hall v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1975-05-21· cited 179×
• Ross v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 58×
• Jimenez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-06-07· cited 51×
• Hogan v. Warden
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-09-29· cited 45×
• Moran v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 41×
• Flanagan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 36×
• Etcheverry v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-11-04· cited 36×
• Hogan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-02-06· cited 30×
• Flanagan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-04-30· cited 18×
• Miller v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-07-22· cited 17×
• Flanagan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-02-10· cited 15×
• Moore v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-05-18· cited 8×