Powell v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• convictions on two counts of capital murder arising out of the killing of one person upheld: murder during a robbery and murder during a burglary
• two convictions for capital murder of one victim because murder occurred during the course of a robbery and during the course of a burglary did not violate double-jeopardy principles because each offense contained an element not present in the other
• murder during a burglary and murder during a robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Arthur v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-03-08· cited 110×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-05-27· cited 58×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2001-12-21· cited 53×
• Ex Parte Rice
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1999-11-05· cited 52×
• Frazier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-01-15· cited 50×
• Hunt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-02-11· cited 47×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-12-02· cited 45×
• Ex Parte Payne
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1996-08-02· cited 38×
• Ex Parte State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-01-12· cited 32×
• Seritt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-04-15· cited 30×
• Tyson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-02-04· cited 29×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1996-09-27· cited 18×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-10-02· cited 15×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-05-28· cited 14×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2005-01-07· cited 14×
• Miles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1997-12-19· cited 13×
• Burtram v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1998-12-18· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2004-02-27· cited 7×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1995-03-03· cited 7×
• Vann v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2003-09-26· cited 6×

Cites

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

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• United States v. Dixon
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 2,221×
• Iannelli v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1975-03-25· cited 1,423×
• Ex Parte Branch
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-12-04· cited 578×
• Willie v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 380×
• Marsden v. Moore
  Eleventh Circuit· 1988-06-28· cited 321×
• Ex Parte Jackson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1987-02-20· cited 233×
• Ex Parte Haney
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-06-19· cited 178×
• Cook v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1979-02-09· cited 166×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1985-06-11· cited 145×
• Ex Parte Henderson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-04-11· cited 143×
• Anderson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1993-02-22· cited 140×
• Ex Parte Williams
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-09-14· cited 127×
• Ex Parte Wilson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-08-17· cited 112×
• Ex Parte White
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-06-28· cited 102×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1988-11-10· cited 100×
• Ex Parte Waldrop
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1984-09-28· cited 98×
• Ex Parte Marek
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-09-08· cited 81×
• Ex Parte Stewart
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-09-03· cited 81×