People v. Smith

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that felony murder is a crime of “the utmost gravity”
• no extensive analysis necessary when sentence of life imprisonment with parole eligibility in forty years imposed for offense of first degree murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Mandez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1999-11-12· cited 702×
• People v. Merchant
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1999-01-07· cited 340×
• People v. Grant
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2007-01-25· cited 320×
• People v. Mershon
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1994-04-18· cited 68×
• People v. Suazo
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1993-11-18· cited 39×
• People v. Cisneros
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1993-07-06· cited 29×
• State v. Arellano
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1998-08-14· cited 24×
• People v. Moya
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1995-01-19· cited 23×
• People v. Rodriguez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1994-04-07· cited 17×
• People v. Fernandez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1994-03-10· cited 13×
• Valenzuela v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1993-07-19· cited 10×
• People v. Dean
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2012-06-21· cited 10×
• Deramus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-10-17· cited 3×
• People v. Wayne Tc Sellers IV
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2022-09-08

Cites

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

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• Gore v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-10-13· cited 885×
• People v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-01-09· cited 230×
• United States v. Charles Lester Murphy
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-03-27· cited 100×
• People v. Drake
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-01-16· cited 97×
• United States v. Hector Gonzalez
  Second Circuit· 1991-01-09· cited 83×
• Bloomer v. Board of County Commissioners
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-10-09· cited 83×
• United States v. Michael James O'driscoll, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Amicus Curiae
  Tenth Circuit· 1985-06-04· cited 79×
• Oaks v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1962-05-28· cited 77×
• People v. Gaskins
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-01-13· cited 69×
• United States v. David Mendoza, Jr., Gerardo Garcia, Luis Pompilio Palacio, and Fabio Ramirez-Salazar
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-05-31· cited 52×
• PEOPLE, BY RUSSEL v. District Court for Fourth JD
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1974-05-06· cited 47×
• United States v. Orestes Luciano Abreu
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-04-13· cited 45×
• People v. Ferrell
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1980-06-23· cited 37×
• Alvarez v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1990-09-10· cited 29×
• Ballay v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1966-08-02· cited 28×
• Ferguson v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-02-03· cited 28×
• People v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1975-12-01· cited 27×