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.

• speaking generally of the right to an impartial jury and citing Ross
• “[t]he third finding allows the jury to reject the death penalty in spite of the fact that the aggravating circumstances outweigh the mitigating”
• The appellant argued that the prosecutor committed bad faith misconduct on three occasions: 1

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. DiFrisco
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-07-27· cited 455×
• Nooner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-10-09· cited 122×
• Bowen v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-11-20· cited 109×
• State v. Hickman
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2003-05-19· cited 100×
• Kemp v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1996-04-22· cited 84×
• Arnold v. Kemp
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-07-15· cited 81×
• State v. Neuendorf
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-12-22· cited 65×
• Bangs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-09-16· cited 61×
• McGehee v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1999-06-17· cited 59×
• Noel v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-01-15· cited 58×
• State v. Jonas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-12-01· cited 58×
• Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Adc
  Eighth Circuit· 1993-10-29· cited 53×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-01-13· cited 52×
• State v. Huerta
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 47×
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-10-01· cited 47×
• Coulter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-02-18· cited 44×
• Isom v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2004-02-19· cited 42×
• Stephens v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1997-04-07· cited 32×
• Franklin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1993-10-04· cited 32×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1998-02-05· cited 31×

Cites

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

• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Ross v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1988-08-25· cited 1,289×
• State v. DePew
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1988-08-31· cited 530×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1982-10-04· cited 530×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-02-08· cited 122×
• Gardner v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-06-20· cited 119×
• Edward Charles Pickens v. A.L. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Corrections
  Eighth Circuit· 1983-08-12· cited 114×
• Makemson v. Martin County
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1986-07-17· cited 94×
• State Ex Rel. Stephan v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1987-12-15· cited 93×
• Franz Ex Rel. Simmons v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-07-11· cited 85×
• Clines v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-07-05· cited 62×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-07-07· cited 57×
• Ruiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-06-12· cited 53×
• Pickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1987-06-01· cited 47×
• Jewell v. Maynard
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-07-21· cited 38×
• State v. Ruiz
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-06-23· cited 38×
• Brewer v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-06-02· cited 32×