Robert Wayne Vickers v. James T. Ricketts

How courts have described this case

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

• finding of premeditation was required for first degree murder conviction where no felony murder was alleged
• where evidence supports lesser-included-offense 3 instruction in capital case, due process requires that court give instruction sua sponte

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Carter
  California Supreme Court· 2005-08-15· cited 484×
• People v. Hawkins
  California Supreme Court· 1995-07-20· cited 254×
• Darrick Leonard GERLAUGH, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Terry STEWART, Director of Arizona Department of Corrections, Respondent-Appellee
  Ninth Circuit· 1997-11-04· cited 150×
• State v. Copeland
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1988-04-11· cited 148×
• Clabourne v. Lewis
  Ninth Circuit· 1995-09-08· cited 125×
• State v. Beaty
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-11-01· cited 115×
• Warren Wesley Summerlin v. Terry L. Stewart, Director of Arizona Department of Corrections
  Ninth Circuit· 2003-09-02· cited 93×
• State v. Vickers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1989-01-31· cited 85×
• Ceja v. Stewart
  Ninth Circuit· 1996-10-08· cited 81×
• State v. Tucker
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1988-06-02· cited 57×
• Joseph Buffalo v. Franklin Sunn, Director D.S.S.H.
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-08-16· cited 54×
• State v. Moorman
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1987-10-06· cited 45×
• State v. Sharp
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1999-01-28· cited 42×
• Kevin Cooper v. Arthur Calderon, Warden of California State Prison at San Quentin
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-07-09· cited 41×
• Summerlin v. Stewart
  Ninth Circuit· 2001-10-12· cited 32×
• Philip Shaddy v. Harold Clarke, Warden of the Nebraska State Penitentiary
  Eighth Circuit· 1989-11-28· cited 23×
• State v. Vickers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-12-06· cited 23×
• Greenawalt v. Ricketts
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-08-22· cited 13×
• Richard Greenway v. Charles Ryan
  Ninth Circuit· 2017-05-11· cited 4×
• Poyson v. Ryan
  D. Arizona· 2010-01-20· cited 2×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Keeble v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 1,048×
• Hopper v. Evans
  Supreme Court· 1982-05-24· cited 715×
• Donald Alan Miller v. A.A. Stagner and R.L. Pulley, Leroy Freeman v. A.A. Stagner and R.L. Pulley
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-04-08· cited 151×
• Charles Sylvester Bell v. John C. Watkins, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-02-28· cited 132×
• State v. Christensen
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-04-14· cited 126×
• State v. Vickers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1981-06-01· cited 97×
• Donald Alan Miller v. A.A. Stagner and R.L. Pulley, Leroy Freeman v. A.A. Stagner and R.L. Pulley
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-08-14· cited 65×
• MacIas v. State
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1929-12-30· cited 59×
• State v. Walton
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1982-06-29· cited 35×
• State v. Lacquey
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-11-15· cited 31×
• State v. Kreps
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1985-09-23· cited 27×
• Huffman v. Ricketts
  Ninth Circuit· 1984-12-28· cited 9×