Robert McGruder v. Steven W. Puckett

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that sentence was not grossly-disproportionate in light of both the Supreme Court’s and the Fifth Circuit’s precedent
• explaining that, if the appellate court determines that the sentence is not grossly disproportionate to the crime, no further analysis need be conducted
• discussing the various opinions issued in Harmelin and their impact on the Solem decision
• reviewing Solem v. Helm and Harmelin v. Michigan , 501 U.S. 957 (1991)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hoops v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1996-08-22· cited 454×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-03-16· cited 413×
• Solis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1997-08-13· cited 320×
• Trevino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-10-13· cited 295×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-20· cited 262×
• Simpson, Mark Twain
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-27· cited 262×
• Simmons v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1997-04-02· cited 217×
• Sones v. Hargett
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-08-21· cited 211×
• Lackey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-11-09· cited 157×
• Mullins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-11-21· cited 152×
• United States v. Gonzales
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-08-26· cited 151×
• Willis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-05-10· cited 149×
• Winchester v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-02-14· cited 132×
• Dale v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-07-28· cited 129×
• Hicks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-04-27· cited 123×
• Latham v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-08-30· cited 117×
• People v. Cartwright
  California Court of Appeal· 1995-10-30· cited 101×
• United States v. Ronald Jerome Fisher, A/K/A La Ron, and Douglas Ray Dunkins, Jr., A/K/A Little Doug
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-07-18· cited 98×
• Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-03-11· cited 98×
• Hawkins v. Hargett
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-12-29· cited 93×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• 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×
• Hutto v. Davis
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 815×
• Moore v. Missouri
  Supreme Court· 1895-11-18· cited 240×
• William James Rummel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Fifth Circuit· 1978-12-20· cited 57×
• Duvall v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1986-11-03· cited 49×
• Harlin Phillip Seritt, Jr. v. State of Alabama
  Eleventh Circuit· 1984-05-03· cited 43×
• King v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1988-05-11· cited 42×
• Wilson v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1981-03-04· cited 27×
• High v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-22· cited 16×
• Phillip Perkins v. Donald Cabana, Superintendent of M.D.O.C. And Governor of State of Mississippi, Morris Thigpen, Commissioner
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-06-30· cited 15×
• United States v. Orrin Shaid, Jr.
  Fifth Circuit· 1990-10-24· cited 13×
• United States v. Ross Alan Milburn
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-02-17· cited 10×
• McGruder v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1984-09-05· cited 1×