Smith 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 a defendant could enter into a plea agreement which called for the defendant to receive the death penalty
• collecting cases and concluding that prisoners preference for death over life in prison not per se irrational
• considering a defendant’s preference for death over life imprisonment, where there was an indication of his desire not to spend the rest of his life in prison and noting that to do so is not “per se irrational”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Blair
  California Supreme Court· 2005-07-28· cited 282×
• Sensback v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-12-17· cited 112×
• United States v. Davis
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-03-11· cited 54×
• State of Tennessee v. Nickolus L. Johnson
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2013-04-19· cited 41×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2001-05-24· cited 32×
• Chapman v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2008-04-21· cited 28×
• Corcoran v. Buss
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-12-31· cited 14×
• Joseph L. Trueblood v. Cecil Davis, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-08-20· cited 9×
• Rogers v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-09-08· cited 7×
• Trueblood, Joseph L. v. Davis, Cecil
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-08-20
• Joseph Corcoran v. Bill Wilson
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-12-31
• James Elvin Dorsey v. State of Iowa
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2022-06-10
• Joseph E. Corcoran v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2024-12-10
• Michael Carr v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2026-02-24

Cites

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

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Johnson v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 792×
• People v. Bloom
  California Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 389×
• Bivins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-03-09· cited 207×
• People v. Sanders
  California Supreme Court· 1990-09-27· cited 196×
• People v. Guzman
  California Supreme Court· 1988-06-28· cited 177×
• Harrison v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1995-01-04· cited 141×
• People v. Deere
  California Supreme Court· 1985-12-31· cited 136×
• Lowery v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-06-04· cited 98×
• Judy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-01-30· cited 96×
• James David Autry v. Dan v. McKaskle Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-03-01· cited 66×
• Gajdos v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 57×
• Lambert v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1996-12-31· cited 48×
• Driskill v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1855-12-24· cited 42×
• Evans v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1984-03-19· cited 30×
• Dillon v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 27×
• Vandiver v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-07-29· cited 11×
• Barnes v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1994-05-06· cited 11×