Pickens 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 any relevant mitigating evidence concerning a defendant’s character should not be excluded
• at resentencing State could present as additional relevant evidence testimony of witness not present at original trial
• evidence of the appellant’s behavior subsequent to the crime should have been considered as a mitigating factor.
• evidence of the appellant's behavior subsequent to the crime should have been considered as a mitigating factor.
• change in death penalty sentencing scheme not ex post facto because it affected neither the crime, punishment prescribed, nor degree of proof necessary to establish guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-06-20· cited 119×
• Darrel Wayne Hill, Appellee/cross-Appellant v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, Appellant/cross-Appellee
  Eighth Circuit· 1994-08-16· cited 98×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-10-31· cited 88×
• Kemp v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-04-22· cited 84×
• State v. Hightower
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-08-08· cited 75×
• Springs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2012-03-01· cited 75×
• Greene v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-06-20· cited 59×
• People v. District Court
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-06-29· cited 56×
• Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Adc
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-10-29· cited 53×
• Mauppin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-05-04· cited 51×
• Pickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-02-05· cited 51×
• State v. Harris
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1996-04-15· cited 50×
• State v. Biegenwald
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-06-20· cited 49×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-05-31· cited 46×
• Coulter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-02-18· cited 44×
• Nooner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-06-26· cited 33×
• O'ROURKE v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-02-27· cited 26×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-03-04· cited 24×
• Maulding v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-09-11· cited 16×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• Dobbert v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 1,651×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Skipper v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-29· cited 1,534×
• Davis v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-12-06· cited 352×
• Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1985-04-24· cited 165×
• United States v. Shotwell Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court· 1957-12-16· cited 126×
• Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-08-12· cited 114×
• Rector v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-10-17· cited 83×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Alfred Stahl v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1973-05-07· cited 82×
• Conley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-10-27· cited 78×
• Duncan v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-03-23· cited 74×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-07-07· cited 57×
• Jimmy C. Wingo v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-04-04· cited 39×
• Fairchild v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1984-12-21· cited 38×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-11-14· cited 36×
• Jimmy L. Glass v. Frank Blackburn, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Louisiana
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-06-12· cited 34×