State v. Alford

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to “pass upon whether capital punishment, as a public policy, is effective” because under Arizona’s separation of powers, “[w]e are limited to the judicial function of faithfully and impartially interpreting the law as enacted by the legislature”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-26· cited 745×
• State v. Maloney
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-01-27· cited 55×
• State v. Goodyear
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-07-19· cited 40×
• State v. Ritch
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-05-09· cited 30×
• State v. Kennedy
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1970-07-14· cited 26×
• Department of Liquor Control v. Santucci
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1969-03-26· cited 26×
• State v. Valenzuela
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-06-16· cited 21×
• State v. Miller
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1974-01-24· cited 18×
• State v. Martinez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1967-05-10· cited 16×
• State v. Robison
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-11-24· cited 15×
• State v. Williams
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1971-10-05· cited 14×
• State v. Janovic
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-08-02· cited 14×
• State v. Tuggle
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-09-29· cited 14×
• State v. Boggs
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1968-05-23· cited 11×
• Frank A. Eyman, Superintendent, Arizona State Penitentiary v. Robert Alford
  Ninth Circuit· 1971-09-28· cited 10×
• State v. Lopez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1965-09-29· cited 7×
• Janovic v. Eyman
  D. Arizona· 1967-12-01· cited 6×
• State v. Franklin
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1966-01-12· cited 4×
• State v. Gibbs
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1968-01-05· cited 3×
• State v. Ortiz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1972-01-04