Geary 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 prejudice under Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 (1984
• noting that the error was compounded where the parties failed to convey that the defendant was likely ineligible for parole under NRS 213.1099(4)
• random and without apparent motive instruction held to be improper due to evidence that the killing was directed at a specific individual for a reason such as anger, jealousy or money
• random and without apparent motive instruction held to be improper due to evidence that the killing was directed at a specific individual for a reason such as anger, jealousy or money

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pellegrini v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-11-15· cited 330×
• Nika v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2008-12-31· cited 149×
• Daniel v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2003-11-03· cited 83×
• Leonard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-01-30· cited 52×
• Franqui v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-10-18· cited 38×
• Sonner v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-04-02· cited 34×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 32×
• Sherman v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-10-27· cited 30×
• Sereika v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-02-26· cited 28×
• Zane Floyd v. Timothy Filson
  Ninth Circuit· 2019-10-11· cited 26×
• Servin v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2001-10-17· cited 24×
• Leslie v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 21×
• Calambro v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 17×
• Nika v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-12-30· cited 11×
• Leonard v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-08-12· cited 9×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1999-04-26· cited 2×
• Zane Floyd v. Timothy Filson
  Ninth Circuit· 2020-02-03
• Canada v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-08-28

Cites

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

• Caldwell v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-11· cited 2,827×
• Godfrey v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-19· cited 1,672×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Petrocelli v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-01-04· cited 199×
• Lord v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-02-07· cited 109×
• Kazalyn v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-01-24· cited 95×
• Wesley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-04-30· cited 70×
• McCullough v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-02-10· cited 65×
• Emmons v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-06· cited 62×
• Sonner v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-12-20· cited 58×
• Canape v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-09-09· cited 56×
• Hutchins v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-02-04· cited 52×
• Jimenez v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-05-30· cited 51×
• Allen v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-06-14· cited 50×
• Zgombic v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-09-13· cited 47×
• Moran v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1987-03-31· cited 41×
• Bennett v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-02-23· cited 39×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1975-12-19· cited 35×
• Lane v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1994-09-29· cited 31×