Sherman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that evidence of the instant murder's impact \on the victim's family is relevant to show the damage done by the murder\
• holding error harmless because the “testimony was limited to only a few statements regarding the previous victim’s standing in the community”
• upholding anti-sympathy instruction where trial court also instructs the jury to consider mitigating facts
• upholding anti-sympathy instruction where trial court also instructs the jury to consider mitigating facts
• upholding anti-sympathy instruction where trial court also instructs the jury to consider mitigating facts
• \Do we execute a person who has killed ... or do we risk the execution of some very innocent people?\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Davis
  California Supreme Court· 2009-06-01· cited 350×
• People v. Virgil
  California Supreme Court· 2011-06-30· cited 276×
• People v. Johnson
  California Supreme Court· 2016-01-21· cited 222×
• Kaczmarek v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-06-07· cited 112×
• St. Clair v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2014-08-21· cited 61×
• Schoels v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-10-27· cited 26×
• Dieudonne v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2011-01-27· cited 15×
• Dettloff v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2004-09-16· cited 13×
• Donald Sherman v. William Gittere
  Ninth Circuit· 2024-02-09· cited 8×
• Sherman v. McDaniel
  D. Nevada· 2004-08-30· cited 6×
• BURNSIDE (TIMOTHY) VS. STATE (DEATH PENALTY/DIRECT)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2015-06-25
• Sherman (Donald) Vs. State (Death Penalty-Pc)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2019-09-13
• Walker (James) Vs. State (Death Penalty-Pc)
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2020-06-19
• Peterson Vs. Medicwest Ambulance, Inc.
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2021-10-15
• State v. Gillard
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2024-12-13

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Petrocelli v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1985-01-04· cited 199×
• Kazalyn v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-01-24· cited 95×
• Greene v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-01-04· cited 71×
• Wesley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-04-30· cited 70×
• Rippo v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-10-01· cited 64×
• Homick v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-01-27· cited 61×
• Guy v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1992-09-03· cited 60×
• Ross v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1990-12-27· cited 58×
• Allen v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-06-14· cited 50×
• Riley v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1991-03-28· cited 45×
• Witherow v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 42×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1996-12-20· cited 35×
• Brown v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1997-02-26· cited 33×
• Geary v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-01-22· cited 32×
• Wilson v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-08-24· cited 29×
• Schoels v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1998-10-27· cited 26×
• Manning v. Warden, Nevada State Prison
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1983-02-14· cited 24×
• Rembert v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1988-12-21· cited 12×