Pruitt v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• test for whether refusal of instruction on lesser included offense is error is whether evidence was adduced at trial to which the lesser included offense instruction was applicable
• when there is “evidence adduced at trial to which the included offense instruction was applicable”
• test for whether refusal of instruction on lesser included offense is error is whether evidence was adduced at trial to which the lesser included offense instruction was applicable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• People v. Turner
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1989-04-20· cited 201×
• People v. Segara
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1988-12-06· cited 98×
• Allen v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-25· cited 97×
• People v. Bowen
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1993-02-18· cited 83×
• Huffman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-09-07· cited 72×
• Cherry v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-01-07· cited 60×
• People v. Anderson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2001-10-23· cited 57×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-11-17· cited 56×
• Fleener v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-11-26· cited 56×
• Forrester v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-10-07· cited 55×
• People v. Gutierrez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2010-06-30· cited 36×
• Adams v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1979-03-06· cited 34×
• Barnes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 31×
• People v. Schultz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1979-07-03· cited 29×
• Carter v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1993-03-16· cited 25×
• People v. Norfleet
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-03-03· cited 19×
• People v. Guzman
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1995-12-01· cited 15×
• Powell v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-10-25· cited 15×
• Skipper v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-07-14· cited 13×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ashe v. Swenson
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-20· cited 4,277×
• Elmore v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-11-08· cited 233×
• Hash v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1972-07-06· cited 130×
• Hester v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1974-08-15· cited 105×
• Sypniewski v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-11-15· cited 61×
• Massey v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1978-01-20· cited 18×
• Sharp v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-11-08· cited 5×