State v. Bernard

How courts have described this case

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

• in capital sentencing hearings, \some evidence of the murder victim's character and of the impact of the murder on the victim's survivors is admissible as relevant to the circumstances of the offense or to the character and propensities of the offender\
• discussing Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-15· cited 953×
• State v. Seals
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-11-25· cited 223×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-02-28· cited 209×
• Crawford v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1998-03-12· cited 197×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1994-10-21· cited 192×
• State v. Scales
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1995-05-22· cited 164×
• State v. Hoffman
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-04-11· cited 159×
• State v. Manning
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2004-10-19· cited 159×
• State v. Tart
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1996-05-01· cited 157×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2003-01-14· cited 142×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-05-28· cited 128×
• State v. Graham (Slip Opinion)
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2020-12-17· cited 125×
• State v. Wessinger
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1999-05-28· cited 121×
• Salazar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-11-27· cited 119×
• State v. Koon
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1997-06-30· cited 116×
• State v. Magee
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2012-09-28· cited 109×
• State v. Brumfield
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1998-10-20· cited 103×
• State v. Carter
  Utah Supreme Court· 1995-01-18· cited 87×
• State v. Odenbaugh
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2011-12-06· cited 84×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2000-09-06· cited 83×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Payne v. Tennessee
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 3,458×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×
• South Carolina v. Gathers
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-30· cited 540×
• State v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1982-10-18· cited 69×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-09-12· cited 64×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1992-11-12· cited 61×
• State v. Prejean
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1980-01-28· cited 40×
• State v. Rushing
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-01-14· cited 31×
• David Daniel Rushing v. Robert H. Butler, Sr., Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-03-30· cited 21×