Sanders v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting error of not instructing jury on first degree felony murder where jury convicted defendant of capital felony murder, but recommended a sentence of life in prison, not the death penalty
• noting error of not instructing jury on first degree felony murder where jury convicted defendant of capital felony murder, but recommended a sentence of life in prison, not the death penalty
• “[W]e have held in cases where the statutes overlap and both instructions are required, the jury may refuse consideration of both the death penalty and life without parole by returning a guilty verdict as to the charge of murder in the first degree.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mauppin v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-05-04· cited 51×
• Rainey v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-09-21· cited 44×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-06-20· cited 42×
• Harshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-03-08· cited 37×
• Britt v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-03-01· cited 37×
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-01-18· cited 33×
• Michael Robert O'ROuRke Jeff Rosenzweig, as Next Friend of Michael Robert O'ROuRke v. Roger Endell, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction
  Eighth Circuit· 1998-09-17· cited 32×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-01-27· cited 31×
• Noble v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1995-02-13· cited 28×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2001-04-26· cited 19×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1994-07-05· cited 14×
• Shaniqua Finley v. State of Arkansas
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2019-11-14· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1992-03-09· cited 10×
• Easter v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-09-23· cited 9×
• Whittier v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 2004-01-21· cited 3×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2014-01-30· cited 2×
• Michael R. O'Rourke v. Roger Endell
  Eighth Circuit· 1998-07-28
• Rowe v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1991-10-16

Cites

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

• United States v. Claude Leander Riley
  Eighth Circuit· 1981-09-08· cited 131×
• Conley v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-10-27· cited 78×
• Scherrer v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1988-01-19· cited 63×
• Clines v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1983-07-05· cited 62×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-03-08· cited 52×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1979-12-03· cited 44×
• Harvey v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-02-23· cited 42×
• State v. Hall
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1978-10-18· cited 34×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1981-03-09· cited 34×
• State v. Harwick
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-07-23· cited 31×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1985-02-04· cited 30×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1939-10-09· cited 27×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1985-10-14· cited 26×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-10-29· cited 25×
• Hough v. Continental Leasing Corp.
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1982-03-22· cited 22×
• Moore v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1990-07-09· cited 22×
• Rhodes v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-09-29· cited 19×
• Welch v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-06-09· cited 18×
• Penn v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1984-12-17· cited 16×
• Texas City Refining, Inc. v. Universal Oil Products Co.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-11-29· cited 11×