Lopez 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 that the trial court properly considered the fact that Lopez killed two children in imposing consecutive sentences even though the trial court had imposed advisory sentences
• observing that a defendant’s guilty plea reflects positively on character although it may not be a significant mitigating factor
• collecting cases in which appellate court reduced sentences based in part on mental illness evidence
• when aggravating and mitigating factors are in equipoise, “our Supreme Court has said that a trial court may not impose consecutive sentences”
• no trial court error in questioning the extent to which mental illness was in control of the defendant’s behavior and caused her to commit her crimes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Upton v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-04-23· cited 31×
• Frentz v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-10-31· cited 23×
• Wright v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-11-10· cited 15×
• Marshall v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-09-30· cited 11×
• Feeney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-10-02· cited 4×
• Michael Phelps v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-06-11
• Miguel Garcia v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-03-15
• Earl D. Napier v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-04-28
• Alisha M. King v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-01-11
• Casey Lee Kimbrell v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2019-09-24
• Roger P. Orich v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-03-23
• Thomas W. Farr v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2020-09-30
• Gregory C. Guilfoyle v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2026-03-06

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Childress v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2006-06-14· cited 1,438×
• Stewart v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-25· cited 223×
• Serino v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-11-19· cited 194×
• Barany v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-11-16· cited 155×
• O'CONNELL v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-03-02· cited 97×
• Archer v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-02-18· cited 96×
• Mayberry v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-07-19· cited 91×
• Marcum v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-03-29· cited 90×
• Weeks v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-25· cited 88×
• Wentz v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-04-15· cited 77×
• Gambill v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-18· cited 74×
• Crawford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-06-26· cited 50×
• Scott v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-01-13· cited 38×
• Walton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-05-30· cited 38×
• Biehl v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-11-21· cited 29×
• Gleaves v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-01-11· cited 28×
• Ankney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-04-26· cited 11×
• Long v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-07· cited 6×