Mason 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 correct procedure for a trial court that violates double jeopardy is to “vacate the conviction for the lesser included offense and enter a judgment of conviction and sentence only upon the greater offense”
• holding as \inappropriate\ the trial court's \merger\ of a lesser offense into a greater offense for purposes of sentencing
• the Court stated that is was “inappropriate” to merge a conviction and sentence for an inherently lesser offense into the greater offense; instead, the lesser conviction must be vacated
• more than three grams of heroin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ronald Mason v. Craig A. Hanks
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-08-27· cited 123×
• Chandler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-11-26· cited 71×
• Carter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-07-17· cited 49×
• Goodner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-24· cited 48×
• Abron v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-05-19· cited 40×
• Young v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-03-19· cited 38×
• Kilpatrick v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-04-11· cited 37×
• Luster v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-09-24· cited 31×
• Harrison v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-02-26· cited 29×
• Everroad v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-15· cited 28×
• Curry v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1994-12-08· cited 28×
• Cohen v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-08-05· cited 27×
• Redman v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1997-05-06· cited 27×
• Isom v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-03-03· cited 26×
• Webster v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-03-31· cited 22×
• Jerid T. Bennett v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2014-03-25· cited 22×
• Micheau v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-09-16· cited 19×
• Molino v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-12-05· cited 19×
• Carroll v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-12-14· cited 17×
• Taflinger v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-07-16· cited 16×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boze v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-10-19· cited 37×
• Montego v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-12-29· cited 34×
• Powers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-10-21· cited 26×
• Ryan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-02-19· cited 23×
• Gunter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1971-12-08· cited 17×
• Moore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-12-12· cited 5×