Sellers v. State

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

• holding that the defendant failed to establish \sufficient reason\ to explain why he did not raise an insanity defense based on multiple personality disorder when the disorder, though relatively new at the time of trial, was reasonably discoverable
• holding that the defendant failed to establish “sufficient reason” to explain why he did not raise an insanity defense based on multiple personality disorder when the disorder, though relatively new at the time of trial, was reasonably discoverable
• \Vertical stare decisis ... compels a court to follow strictly the decisions rendered by a higher court.\

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Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sean Richard Sellers v. Ronald Ward, Warden of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-02-04· cited 166×
• State v. Lafferty
  Utah Supreme Court· 2001-02-23· cited 89×
• People v. McSwain
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2004-02-19· cited 68×
• Berget v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-11-06· cited 58×
• Trice v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1996-02-29· cited 33×
• Pickens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1996-01-23· cited 27×
• Roberts v. Roberts
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2014-09-05· cited 20×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1996-04-09· cited 15×
• Sellers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1999-02-01· cited 9×
• Newsted v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-12-20· cited 7×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1995-12-27· cited 7×
• Orndorff v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2005-06-14· cited 6×
• York v. Performance Auto, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Utah· 2011-08-04· cited 6×
• Spears v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1996-09-12· cited 4×
• Orndorff v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-11-23· cited 3×
• Sellers v. Ward
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-02-04
• Raymond Palmer v. H.N. Scott, Also Known as Sonny Scott Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-01-11