Patton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• court should not sentence on plea from capital defendant when defendant denies intent to kill
• “A guilty plea is an admission of guilt; it admits the incriminating facts alleged.”
• “Patton did not protest his innocence at the same time as he pled guilty, but he did firmly contradict his admission of guilt at the sentencing hearing. Although the plea and contradiction were separate in time, the principle of Ross must apply to the sentencing hearing in a capital case.”
• denying Patton's writ for mandate and prohibition

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-11-28· cited 48×
• Davis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-31· cited 41×
• Trueblood v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-02-28· cited 35×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-08-29· cited 33×
• Weatherford v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-06-30· cited 27×
• Bewley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-06-11· cited 23×
• Harris v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1996-08-27· cited 22×
• Patton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1992-03-16· cited 21×
• Beech v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-12-17· cited 18×
• Patton v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-06-22· cited 17×
• Demajio Ellis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2017-01-26· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-07-22· cited 15×
• Martin v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1989-10-11· cited 11×
• Epperson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1988-11-21· cited 11×
• Mayberry v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-08-28· cited 8×
• Ford v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-22· cited 7×
• Carter v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2000-02-25· cited 6×
• Belcher v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-12-07· cited 4×
• Smith v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-06-15· cited 4×
• State Ex Rel. Patton v. Superior Court of Marion County
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-12-06· cited 3×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• North Carolina v. Alford
  Supreme Court· 1970-11-23· cited 9,465×
• Ross v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-12-02· cited 82×
• Harshman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1953-11-25· cited 79×
• Boles v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1973-11-26· cited 26×
• Centers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-12-16· cited 22×
• Van Cleave v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-12-30· cited 20×