Francis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that defendant’s guilty plea extends a benefit to the State and victims by avoiding a full-blown trial
• “a sentencing court is inherently aware of the fact that a guilty plea is a mitigating circumstance”
• “A guilty plea demonstrates a defendant’s acceptance of responsibility for the crime and extends a benefit to the State and to the victim or the victim’s family by avoiding a full-blown trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cardwell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-11-12· cited 1,919×
• Anglemyer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-10-30· cited 1,479×
• McElroy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-05-02· cited 177×
• Cotto v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-06-23· cited 170×
• Gibson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-08· cited 155×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-12-11· cited 73×
• Hope v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-09-27· cited 68×
• Caraway v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-11-17· cited 54×
• Neale v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-05-03· cited 49×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-06-26· cited 41×
• Scott v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-01-13· cited 38×
• Webb v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-01-31· cited 37×
• McMahon v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-13· cited 36×
• Prickett v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-11-21· cited 34×
• Payne v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-12-06· cited 24×
• Espinoza v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-27· cited 23×
• Estes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-05-10· cited 22×
• Primmer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-20· cited 20×
• Banks v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-02-06· cited 20×
• James v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-06-21· cited 19×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wooley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-29· cited 145×
• Widener v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-28· cited 125×
• Sensback v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-17· cited 112×
• Spears v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-10-06· cited 102×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 79×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-28· cited 75×
• Trueblood v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-09-09· cited 67×
• Sherwood v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-05-31· cited 60×
• Scheckel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-09-28· cited 55×
• Lander v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-02-15· cited 40×