Spears v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the evidence was sufficient to support Spears' First Degree Murder conviction under either a malice murder or felony murder theory
• concluding that trial counsel’s performance was not deficient
• evidence that the victim hollered and moaned during the beating that preceded his death and testimony by a witness that he could tell the victim was hurting was sufficient to rationally support the conclusion that the victim was conscious during the beating

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moore v. Reynolds
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-07-13· cited 177×
• Thomas v. Gibson
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-07-18· cited 171×
• Hung Thanh Le v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1997-10-02· cited 137×
• Spears v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-08-12· cited 134×
• Warner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2006-09-26· cited 112×
• Ledbetter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1997-02-21· cited 111×
• Conover v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1997-04-03· cited 106×
• Douglas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1997-12-17· cited 102×
• DeRosa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2004-04-22· cited 100×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2001-03-12· cited 99×
• Patton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1998-12-09· cited 96×
• Torres v. Mullin
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-01-23· cited 88×
• Lockett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2002-08-14· cited 84×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1999-05-07· cited 84×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1998-06-30· cited 83×
• Jones v. Gibson
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-02-15· cited 82×
• Humphreys v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1997-10-10· cited 76×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2006-03-14· cited 73×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2002-04-23· cited 73×
• Torres v. States
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1998-06-30· cited 70×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Lockhart v. Fretwell
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,956×
• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Enmund v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 2,349×
• Tison v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 1,617×
• Cruz v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-21· cited 734×
• Spuehler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1985-12-02· cited 534×
• Dennis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1950-05-01· cited 468×
• Mann v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 371×
• Fox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1989-08-30· cited 211×
• Love v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1992-04-06· cited 197×
• Mayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1994-08-04· cited 194×
• D & S Auto Parts, Inc. v. Schwartz
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 163×
• Pickens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1993-03-25· cited 162×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1994-12-06· cited 138×
• Williamson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1991-05-15· cited 134×
• Foster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1986-02-04· cited 133×
• Shandon Inc. v. Miles Laboratories, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1994-01-24· cited 130×
• Callahan v. Robtoy
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-26· cited 130×