Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that while the trial court erred in failing to find the defendant’s mental illness as a mitigating factor, that error was harmless in light of multiple valid aggravating factors
• holding that although the trial court erred in failing to find the defendant’s mental illness to be a mitigating factor, the error was harmless in light of multiple valid aggravating factors
• concluding that defendant’s mental illness should have been given little weight where defendant was capable of controlling his behavior, did not have significant limitations on his functioning, and failed to identify a nexus between his mental illness and the offense
• determining that Scott was able to control his behavior despite a lengthy criminal record and failed to establish a nexus between his mental illness and his crimes
• holding defendant’s bipolar disorder was entitled to little weight as mitigating factor
• determining Scott’s guilty plea was entitled to less weight because an eyewitness could identify Scott as the robber

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Roney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-08-24· cited 103×
• Creekmore v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-09-07· cited 46×
• Hurst v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-07-17· cited 41×
• Washington v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-01-21· cited 38×
• Primmer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-11-20· cited 20×
• Rawson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-05-10· cited 19×
• Lopez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-07-17· cited 18×
• Taylor v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2011-02-22· cited 6×
• Hairston v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-12-14
• Kenneth E. Aker, Jr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2015-04-17
• Lindsey P. Smith v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2016-09-16
• Joetta S. Sells v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-03-02
• Martell J. Anderson v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-31
• Anna M. Mincoff v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-06-05
• Jeffery A. Hmurovic, Sr. v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-07-27
• Daniel Michael Walts v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-08-25
• Jason W. Green v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-09-05
• Walter Small v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-11-29
• Jonathon D. Reis v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-12-11
• Arthur Jerome Croom v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2018-04-19

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Blakely v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 13,994×
• Cotto v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-06-23· cited 170×
• Ritchie v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-05-25· cited 142×
• Widener v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-12-28· cited 125×
• Fointno v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-01-06· cited 98×
• Williams v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 79×
• Henderson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-06-06· cited 76×
• Francis v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2004-11-09· cited 74×
• Scheckel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-09-28· cited 55×
• Neale v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-05-03· cited 49×
• Morgan v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-06-15· cited 44×
• Estes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-05-10· cited 22×
• Hart v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-06-07· cited 22×
• Schweitzer v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-10-14· cited 20×
• Frye v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2005-12-01· cited 15×
• Ankney v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-04-26· cited 11×
• McCray v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-03-10· cited 4×
• Wal Mart Stores, Inc. v. Wayne Township Assessor
  Indiana Tax Court· 2005-04-08· cited 4×