McCray v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel” contemplates “those conscienceless or pitiless homicides that are unnecessarily torturous to the victim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-11-29· cited 62×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-11-05· cited 48×
• Woodward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-12-16· cited 32×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-10-05· cited 25×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-08-30· cited 22×
• Shanklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-12-19· cited 22×
• Stanley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2011-04-29· cited 18×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-07-18· cited 18×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 17×
• Townes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-12-18· cited 13×
• Sharp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-03-05· cited 12×
• Norfolk Southern Railway Co. v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2011-03-11· cited 12×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-08-30· cited 11×
• Bohannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-10-23· cited 11×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2017-02-10· cited 10×
• Scheuing v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-11-08· cited 9×
• Floyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2012-12-14· cited 9×
• Woolf v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-05-02· cited 9×
• Largin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2015-12-18· cited 8×
• Wimbley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-12-19· cited 7×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Brecht v. Abrahamson
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-07· cited 7,022×
• United States v. Frady
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 5,791×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• United States v. Young
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-20· cited 4,689×
• Ring v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-24· cited 4,683×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Colorado v. Connelly
  Supreme Court· 1986-12-10· cited 4,016×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Washington v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-07· cited 3,450×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×